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A Thin Place: Παῦλος, The Least of Apostles, writes a final note to Ἰωάννης – The Beloved Disciple May 26, 2026 “It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; He is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is He…
Hedged in By Freedom Jun 16, 2019 The difficulty of explaining “why I am a Catholic” is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true. ~G.K. Chesterton Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea…
Love Is Mine. I Own It. Nov 11, 2018 “I loved Sarah, Charles. It was mine, that love. I owned it. Even Sarah didn’t have the right to take it away. I can love whoever I want.” Charles said, “But she thought you were pathetic.”…
The Bible Is A Weird Book Aug 16, 2018 The Bible is a weird book. There, I’ve got that on tape now! It is though. And I mean that as high praise! … Be patient, I tell preachers. Be patient with the Bible. Don’t run…
Salt And Light to Share The Bread of Life Aug 5, 2018 Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way. ~Vance Havner “Let Me tell you why you are here. You’re here to…
Peace by Bloodshed Aug 3, 2018 I charge you never to give up the old doctrine of the blood of Christ, the complete satisfaction which that atoning blood made for sin, and the impossibility of being saved except by that blood. Let…
Newly-Cracked Pots Spilling Ancient Oil And Wine Nov 21, 2017 I have always been filled with the fires of the love of a God not old, and now to this has been joined the passion of the love of a young man. That love, dear earth,…
His Way Is Not Our Way: The Unstoppable Holy Spirit Oct 21, 2017 When the soul knows the love of God by the Holy Spirit, then he clearly feels that the Lord is our own Father, the closest, dearest Father, the best. And there is not greater happiness that…
Jesus is The 道 (The Dao, or Way) Oct 20, 2017 There exists a Being undifferentiated and complete, Born before heaven and earth. Tranquil, boundless, Abiding alone and changing not, Encircling everything without exhaustion. Fathomless, it seems to be the Source of all things. I do not…
Politics Won’t Save Us Jan 24, 2017 I remember once when I had been giving a talk to the R.A.F., an old, hard-bitten officer got up and said, ‘I’ve no use for all that stuff. But, mind you, I’m a religious man too.…
Already There Oct 10, 2016 Let us understand that, while our bodies and souls are quite fixed here upon earth, through the agency of the Holy Spirit our spirits have been brought into direct fellowship with Christ in heaven. From this…
What The Church is Not Aug 10, 2014 Persecution has not crushed the church; power has not beaten it back; time has not abated its forces; and what is most wonderful of all, the abuses of its friends have not shaken its stability.~Horace Bushnell…