Eyes to See and Ears to Hear – part 3 When I was a pastor in a wonderful church in Mississippi, we had some serious turkey hunters there and I got to go a few times with some of them. We went hunting early one morning, got still, and started listening for a turkey to [...]
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Imitation of ChristThomas A’Kempis The Sixteenth Chapter Bearing with the Faults of Others UNTIL God ordains otherwise, a man ought to bear patiently whatever he cannot correct in himself and in others. Consider it better thus-perhaps to try your patience and to test you, for without such patience and trial your merits are of little [...]
Imitation of Christ Thomas A’Kempis The Fourteenth Chapter Avoiding Rash Judgment TURN your attention upon yourself and beware of judging the deeds of other men, for in judging others a man labors vainly, often makes mistakes, and easily sins; whereas, in judging and taking stock of himself he does something that is always profitable. We [...]
“The purpose of the disciplines is freedom. Our aim is the freedom, not the Discipline. The moment we make the discipline our central focus, we turn it into law and lose the corresponding freedom. The disciplines are for the purpose of realizing a greater good. In and of themselves they are of no value whatever. [...]
Story of Non-Transformation John Ortberg tells the story about the man who never changed. “Hank, as we’ll call him, was a cranky guy. He did not smile easily, and when he did, the smile often had a cruel edge to it, coming at someone’s expense. He had a knack for discovering islands of bad news [...]
Safe and Sound: A Story of Transformation
Posted: January 15, 2007 in Following Jesus, Spiritual FormationSAFE AND SOUND A Story of Transformation The USS Cole, one of our guide missel destroyers was attacked while refueling in Yemen on Oct 12, 2000 . It was attacked by terrorists when a small boat loaded with explosives was detonated beside the ship. The explosion blasted a hole in its side 40 foot by [...]
Cornelius Plantinga tells the following story in his book Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin. “In the film Grand Canyon, an immigration attorney breaks out of a traffic jam and attempts to bypass it. His route takes him along streets that seem progressively darker and more deserted. Then the predictable [...]
