I know a man who joined the army when he was young. After training for many years, he learned about how many hundreds of thousands of dollars it costs to train him. Doubtful, he asked the recruiter, "why invest all that money in me?" He responded "because when the time comes, you will be ready. The chance of your success is much higher with ( Read more... )

Each of us must contend with reality. Which is to say that we have to deal with the truth. We can choose not to deal with it, or declare it doesn’t exist, but reality has a way of sneaking up on us and proving our assumptions wrong. Each of us needs courage to persevere in and with the truth ( Read more... )

“To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice (Proverbs 21:3 ( Read more... )

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Gal 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy,d]" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; display: inline;">[d] drunkenness, orgies, ( Read more... )

Walking in the dark so long,
I had forgotten there was a path.

Stumble, trip, and fall again;
How long will this last?

Jesus would you walk with me?
My feet have lost their way.

He says to me "My word is true,"
"My hand is yours to hold."

Reflections on Luke 4:1-13.

The temptations of Jesus were the temptation to do good things in the wrong way, in the wrong time. Put another way: the temptation to solve the wrong problem.

It's a good thing to feed and provide bread for yourself and others.  But to turn the stone to bread at the devil's prompting, at a time that was SPIRIT-LED into ( Read more... )

4 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 3 And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” 4 But he answered, “It is written,

“‘Man shall not live by bread alone,
    but by ( Read more... )

I put on my cape and believe ( Read more... )