Holiness

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Let It Burn… Our Warfare Is Ended Mar 23, 2022 Control is an illusion, but isolation is not.
Our Schizophrenic faith Aug 26, 2017 Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves. ~ Martin Luther King Jr. O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed…
Thankful G_d Is Not A god of Our Own Understanding Feb 13, 2017 Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God’s indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand…
The Beautiful Collision of Our Heart with G_d’s Aug 14, 2016 Can we see it? As our heart merges with the character He is inscribing on us and within us… This is the process of sanctification. For, as character and heart merge, we cement our destiny –…
Afraid of Who We Are Mar 14, 2016 It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if…
Don’t Even Entertain The Thought Nov 24, 2015 In my own being, I could not exist very long as a Christian without the inner consciousness of the presence and nearness of God! I can only keep right by keeping the fear of God on…
The Velvet Chisel Feb 25, 2015 Everything that God brings into our life is directed to one purpose: that we might be conformed to the image of Christ.~Erwin W. Lutzer (1941- ) Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we…
A Pragmatic Grace Nov 5, 2014 A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.~Martin Luther (1483-1546) So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a…
סְגֻלָּה A Peculiar People Jul 6, 2014 Note the contradictions: The Christian believes that in Christ he has died, yet he is more alive than before and he fully expects to live forever. He walks on earth while seated in heaven and though…
Princes Should Not Be Cowards Jul 2, 2014 Love has a clear eye; but it can see only one thing—it is blind to every interest but that of its Lord; it sees things in the light of his glory and weighs actions in the…
Sanctification – Learning to Believe Sep 8, 2013 To be another than I am, I must abandon that which I am.~Saint John Chrysostom (c. 347-407)…I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according…
Expanding Eternity Jul 11, 2013 Winning—for all eternity—is about letting Me have total control. It is admitting that you need Me, and then trusting Me to lead you.~ Sarah Young speaking of JesusNow a discussion arose between some of John’s disciples…
Simply Pure Feb 24, 2013 The old word for holy in the German language, heilig, also means healthy. And so heilbronn means holy-well, or healthy-well. You could not get any better definition of what holy really is than healthy—completely healthy.~Thomas Carlyle…
Relevance Feb 17, 2013 Breath in me, O Holy Spirit, that my thoughts may all be holy. Act in me, O Holy Spirit, that my work, too, may be holy. Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, that I love but…
Wholly Other Than Mar 7, 2012 The Christian soon learns that if he would be victorious as a son of heaven among men on earth he must not follow the common pattern of mankind, but rather the contrary. That he may be…
The Sum, Source and Substance of Life Dec 1, 2011 We have received life, yet this life and the head are inseparable. Upon our accepting Him, we still must live in Him. Though we have received Him, we are yet to depend on Him. Accordingly, we…