Archive for July, 2009

In the last year or so, I have read many a message from one Christian preacher or another recommending that we and our churches store up foodstuffs and other necessary supplies against hard times to come. In this way, we will not only be able to care for ourselves and our families but also for our neighbors.... Full story

"What would it be like if our feeding programs didn't just fill empty tummies, but so confronted us with the reality of God's miraculous love for us that thousands turned to Jesus as King?" Full story

The NFL is as popular as it is because the warrior spirit lives in every man. Because we haven't learned to engage the enemy in spiritual warfare, we have taken to consuming football games instead. Full story

One of my earliest church memories is of my first grade Sunday school class marching in circles in the second floor parish hall at Trinity Church in Columbus Ohio, singing "Onward Christian Soldiers." Full story

In keeping with this week's theme of God's break-out, I thought I'd repost an old RHR that deals with the same idea, the fire of God. Receiving His Riches 9 - II Advent, Year A Isaiah 11:1-10 Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19 Romans 15:4-13 Matthew 3:1-12 This week, as I was preparing for Sunday's service, I was very much taken with the "unquenchable fire" with which John says that Jesus will consume the ... Full story

THERE is no bondage in the Heavenly Life. There is Perfect Freedom. This is its great glory. This Supreme Freedom is gained only by obedience. He who obeys the Highest co-operates with the Highest, and so masters every force within himself and every condition without. A man may choose the lower and neglect the Higher, but the Higher is never overcome by the lower : ... Full story

IF a man would know Love, and partake of its undying bliss, he must practise it in his heart; he must become Love. He who always acts from the spirit of Love is never deserted, is never left in a dilemma or difficulty, for Love (impersonal Love) is both Knowledge and Power. He who has learned how to Love has learned how to master every ... Full story

Receiving His Riches 2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19 Psalm 24 or Amos 7:7-15 Psalm 85:8-13 Ephesians 1:3-14 Mark 6:14-29 Reading this week's text from 2 Samuel I was taken back to the 80's, to the first of the "Indiana Jones" movies, "Raiders of the Lost Ark." In the climactic scene the bad guys (Nazis) open up the Ark and find a bunch of dust. Indiana warns his companion to keep her eyes shut though, ... Full story

  THE Children of Light who abide in the Kingdom of Heaven see the universe, and all that it contains, as the manifestation of one Law—the Law of Love. They see Love as the moulding, sustaining, protecting, and perfecting Power immanent in all things animate and inanimate. To them Love is not merely and only a rule of life, it is the Law of life, it ... Full story

THE righteous man is invincible. No enemy can possibly overcome or con-found him ; and he needs no other protection than that of his own integrity and holiness. As it is impossible for evil to overcome Good, so the righteous man can never be brought low by the unrighteous. Slander, envy, hatred, malice can never reach him, nor cause him any suffering, and those who ... Full story

INTO the cause of causes shalt thou penetrate, and lifting, one after another, every veil of illusion, shalt reach at last the inmost Heart of Being. Thus becoming one with Life, thou shalt know all life, and, seeing into causes, and knowing realities, thou shalt be no more anxious about thyself, and others, and the world, but shalt see that all things that are, are ... Full story

    "Oh, that You would bless me indeed, "   and enlarge my territory,   that Your hand would be with me,   and that You would keep me from evil,   that I may not cause pain!      1 Chronicles ... Full story

THE man who conquers another by force is strong ; the man who conquers himself by Meekness is mighty. He who conquers another by force will himself likewise be conquered ; he who conquers himself by Meekness will never be overthrown, for the human cannot overcome the divine. The meek man is triumphant in defeat. Socrates lives the more by being put to death; in ... Full story

    18 There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off. 19 Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path. 20 Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat, 21 for drunkards and gluttons become ... Full story

IN whatever condition a man finds himself, he can always find the True ; and he can find it only by so utilising his present condition as to become strong and wise. The effeminate hankering after rewards, and the craven fear of punishment, let them be put away for ever, and let a man joyfully bend himself to the faithful performance of all his duties, ... Full story

Bruce Wilkinson’s in-depth, line-by-line analysis of1 Chronicles 4:10 in The Prayer of Jabez is something worth remembering. You rush through readings and grasp an overall meaning. However, what if you slowed down and looked at each line. There are meanings inside the meanings. Although they are subtle, they are monumental in their affect on you. You not only see that this prayer is positive, ... Full story

Brothers and sisters, this joy isn't just something you and I were meant to know in heaven. We can know the safety and security that the lowest know just by "going lower" ourselves. And God will meet us in those low places, and bless us, and then He'll invite us to go lower, to give up more of our self-regard so that we ... Full story