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Drawing Near God and a Time of Prayer
The First Three Stories
A walk and a true story meant to encourage, challenge, edify, and propel us all forward in walking with the One True God. Even more, I hope that these glorify my dear Lord and Savior.
Pride, June 2022 – No Better Day to be Reminded
Men need grace, but they shall not received it when pride reins. Grace is needed far more than anyone of us can know.
Impacting for me today.
"Be content to live unknown for a little while, and to walk your weary way through the fields of poverty, or up the hills of affliction: for by-and-by you shall reign with Christ, for He has 'made us kings and priests unto God, and we shall reign for ever and ever' - Oh! wonderful thought…
Do I Desire to Love God?
Do I Desire to Love God? "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind."
A True Story: Twenty Years and Plowing into Eternity
Up to this point, everything I did was for my own narcissism and all attempts to easy my hopeless, dark, hell-bent state were a failure. No matter how I tried to numb the pain and bring light into my life, I was unable. My prison chains were real, forged of a damning, deceitful, and disturbing kind of steel. These binding serrated bars and chain-links of death were unable to be lifted and left me most inescapable. I was powerless, and none of my works, even my very best ones, nor any of my uses of self-help, could rescue.
21 Misunderstandings of Calvinism by Dr. Sam Waldron
There is no other title I really desire to take other than, Christian, along with my persecuted brothers and sisters from the days of the early church [Acts 11:26]. I must say, I do seem quite at home with many of the reformers. And although I have been called a Calvinist many times over...
Nothing Else Will Do
When personal works are but filth; when entertainment no longer numbs; when self-righteousness and the pride of life are shown for the powerless vanity that they are; when man cannot give comfort to the soul - O' what a place, O' what a sweet place raw reality.
Navigating the Waters of Affliction
Does not life often feel as if the captain of the ship has died and you are the one left at the helm, a helm untrained, a helm that is being beaten down and tossed by turbulent waves, being left to pilot a storm battered vessel with no direction of true north. At least for me, I know that it does sometimes feel exactly like this.
When the Stone of Offense Becomes the Stone of Surrender
Early this morning, between imaging patients, I was praying and asking the Lord a specific question concerning myself, my focus, and weighing out the balance in life that the He would have of me.
Forge Flower 