People around you might be ashamed of you. Some of your friends might be ashamed of you. Co-workers might be ashamed of you. Church members might be ashamed of you. You might even be ashamed of yourself. But know this: Christ is not. You’re a failure. We all are. Christ knows you are a failure. If […]
There is no comfort like the fact of God’s infinite, unchanging and eternal love for us! If we can but get this truth into our minds and hearts — it will sustain us in every trial. All the universe is under God’s personal sway, and He is our tenderest and dearest Friend, carrying each one of […]
Reblogged from Christ the Truth: Here’s a repost about the vital importance of not being too earnest… First of all, taking yourself lightly needs to be held together with the other half of the truth: we must take God seriously. Once I take God seriously – and by that I mean the trinitarian God of […]
Let me see redemption win Let me know the struggle ends That you can mend a heart that’s frail and torn I want to know a song can rise From the ashes of a broken life And all that’s dead inside can be reborn Cause I’m worn. “Worn” by Tenth Avenue North A very honest […]
To never worry would be one of the things we would enjoy in heaven. ~Mr. Anxiety (Part 2) If the statement above is true, does that mean we are hopeless? No, all the more that we should be hopeful – what is to come is something sure. We are trapped in the temporary, caught in between […]
If I could teach you a lesson, which, as yet, I have but poorly learned myself—I would teach you a way to be never be disappointed. This would be the case—if you could always form a right judgment of this world, and all things in it. If you go to a bramble-bush to look for […]
My childhood was colorful. Not great by the standards of many, but it was beautiful. One thing that I really miss about it is that I was less afraid. I was less anxious. I was afraid of the dark and the monsters beneath my bed. Other than those, I cannot remember any other serious concerns. […]
After Adam and Eve sinned, they curved in on themselves. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths. (Genesis 3:7) We see the Gospel proclaimed in Genesis 3:15 and God’s mercy act of clothing the sinners. And the LORD God […]
You have as much laughter as you have faith. ~Martin Luther I’m not sure what inspired Luther to say that, but it makes a lot of sense to me. Besides, we all laugh and, praise God, some of us have faith. In that sense, it is easy to see, that a humorous (or merry) man or woman […]
If I can be a super hero, I’ll name myself “Anxiety.” I’ll defeat the bad guys by worrying them so bad that they would just give up. Easy. What if there is a real Mr. Anxiety? A mean and cruel version of the superhero I imagined? He is the villain and… he hates you. (see Ephesians […]
