From You Are The Beloved “I am increasingly convinced that it is possible to live the wounds of the past not as gaping abysses that cannot be fulfilled and, therefore, keep threatening us as gateways to new life. The ‘gateless gate’ of Zen and the ‘healing wounds of Christ’ both encourage us to detach ourselves […]
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Thanksgiving for Rescue from Death — Psalm 116 I love this psalm. Honestly, I wish I could sit down and talk with the author. Because this doesn’t read like theology. It reads like surviving a near death experience. It sounds like a man who thought he was about to die… and didn’t. Look at the
Deuteronomy 26:16–19 16 “This day the Lord your God commands you to perform these statutes and ordinances. Therefore you shall be careful to perform them with all your heart and with all your soul. 17 Today you have declared the Lord to be your God, and that you will walk in His ways and keep His statutes,
Our Entire Walk In 8 Verses 10 While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” 12 On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the
Psalm 1 Beatus vir qui non abiit – Blessed is the man who did not walk 1 Happy are they who have not walked in the counsel of the wicked, * nor lingered in the way of sinners, nor sat in the seats of the scornful!2 Their delight is in the law of the Lord, * and they
A meditation on 2 Peter 1:16–21 A quiet Christian meditation on 2 Peter 1:16–21, exploring Christ as light in darkness and what it means for the Morning Star to rise in the human heart. Faith Grounded in Encounter, Not Myth Peter says something in this passage that feels both simple and mysterious at the same
Psalm 84:11–12 — The Goodness We Keep Misunderstanding “No good thing will the Lord withhold from those who walk with integrity.O Lord of hosts, happy are they who put their trust in you.” God is good. We are made in His image. Yet, so often, we try to remake God in ours. We imagine Him
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“Hear what the Lord says: Rise, plead your case before the mountains…”— Micah 6:1–8 There are passages in Scripture that feel like they belong to a single moment in history. And then there are passages that refuse to stay put. Micah 6 is one of those. It speaks across centuries. It finds us wherever we
1 Corinthians 1:8–9 Difference Between Performance and Transformation There is a line in Paul’s opening to the church in Corinth that sounds simple—almost harmless—until you sit with it long enough for it to start making demands. “He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you may be blameless on the day of our
The Mystery This is the reason that I Paul am a prisoner for Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles– for surely you have already heard of the commission of God’s grace that was given me for you, and how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I wrote above in
