"There is one and only one possible road to joy: selfless love." - Peter Kreeft On a snowy night in January of 1980, I had a crisis moment. The crisis came after reading the response of Jesus to a question regarding the greatest commandment. According to Jesus, the greatest commandment is to love our God …
On the value of our weaknesses: The world's salvation, the lost's redemption, and the found's sanctification were not wrought in eternity past, although they were conceived and warranted there. These gifts were not wrought in the three years in which Christ Jesus walked the earth calling many to repentance and doing good. No, they were …
We are "les enfants de l'eternitie," the "children of eternity." We are the children of a God Who inhabits eternity. Time means nothing to our God. Time is nothing in its speeding, and nothing in its halting. As children of eternity, we can rest in His leisure no matter how short our time might be. …
On the need for true humility if we would see the grace of our God flow into our living: "Humility quietly demolishes the dams of pride in our lives, so the river of grace may freely flow. But we need not wait for our God to dynamite these obstacles. We can and must accomplish this …
Until this week, I have not posted on this blog since November 3, 2022. I took time away from writing to relocate from my home in NW Minnesota to a home further north and west in Minnesota. I purchased a small home up north in November of 2021 and spent thirteen months gutting it, rebuilding …
"Let me press upon everyone...the solemn obligation resting upon him to care for those around him - not only the outcast, but those with whom he is associated in church fellowship, very specially any who are in danger of being hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. The Christ unto whom we are to grow up …
Image via Author, Bighorn Range, Wyoming As identified in the last post, Jesus identified the foremost or greatest commandment as the command to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. There are good reasons for Jesus to say this, good reasons for us to take these words seriously. This …
One Thousand Gifts, Ann Voskamp, Zondervan 2010, 239 pages, hardcover. Critical read Must read Good read Read if you want Read something else Why read this book? I am a believer in the idea that there is little in our lives that is random. Our God is at work in the most minute of details. …
For what are you grateful this day? In previous posts I have written about how gratitude is good for us emotionally and physically. Gratitude is the exciting new “star” in the emotional and physical health literature. And of course, being thankful is the most common admonition found in the scriptures. The Psalms tell us that …
Ephesians 2:1-6 – “And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in the …
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