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One of my favorites… When we have exhausted our store of endurance, When our strength has failed ere the day is half done, When we reach the end of our hoarded resources, Our Father’s full giving is only begun; For His love has no limit; His grace has no measure. His pow’r has no boundary
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Our reputation is never more important to us than the moment we see ourselves through the eyes of the one we most love. How we live after that moment is truth of our love… “To follow Jesus is to pay the cost of discipleship, and then to die to ourselves, to our own interests, our own agendas and reputations. It is to pick
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(I rarely editorialize, so be forewarned. Another, more encouraging post is on its way soon…) “What is truth?”, Pontius Pilate once quipped at the words of Jesus, just before he sentenced Him to death. If you ask the same question to UNESCO, the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the reply would be something
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Democracy makes people rulers, ideologies are their battlefields and votes are their swords—until a real King happens along… “As Christians we know that here we have no continuing city—that crowns roll in the dust and every earthly kingdom must sometime flounder, whereas we acknowledge a King men did not crown and cannot dethrone, as we are citizens of
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A merchant once found something much bigger than America… “I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvelous Presence.” —Christopher Columbus Eureka. —j
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As I’m teaching in Jerusalem, I offer a short provocation from Christianity’s holiest site… (5:30)
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A great story from a true saint—and young. I present it here with its official introduction. Long, and so worth the read… Seventeen-year-old Brian Moore had only a short time to write something for a class. The subject was “what Heaven was like.” “I wowed ’em,” he later told his father, Bruce. “It’s a killer.
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My favorite poem (to be read in the meter of my favorite poet—Dr. Seuss)… When I Became A Christian by Adrian Plass When I became a Christian I said, Lord, now fill me in, Tell me what I’ll suffer in this world of shame and sin. He said, your body may be killed, and left to rot
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There are people in this darkening world who are admired more than others, even when the darkness is great and imposing. They are of little worth to the status quo, yet they shine like stars. They are you. “If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since
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Ever feel completely unfit to serve God or people? Good. “He continually watches the good and the wicked, and as His most holy eyes have not found among sinners any smaller man, nor any more insufficient and sinful, therefore He chose me to accomplish the marvelous work that God hath undertaken; He chose me because He
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Jay McCarl 