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No room for feelin’ led
When it comes to helpin people that ain’t got much, God didn’t leave no room for feelin led.
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Anything that makes me need God is a blessing
It is a lengthy quote, but it encouraged (and challenged) me so much that I just had to share it. I want to say this one day and mean it with all my heart. I hope Nancy’s words encourage you today, too. “The choice before you and me today is: Do we only give glory…
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The Certainty of His Word
Much of my reading this weekend in Calvin’s Institutes has focused on scripture. In addition to Calvin’s compelling defense for scripture’s veracity, he writes this: For the Lord has so knit together the certainty of his word and his Spirit, that our minds are duly imbued with reverence for the word when the Spirit shining…
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Creation Declares
I am going to read Calvin’s Institutes in 2010. Kim is reading, too, and she says, “I had the impression that it was a daunting task ahead of me and I was amazed to discover that they are very approachable and pastoral.” It’s a big book, but it isn’t all that difficult to read. …
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Thinking about Sunday mornings
I did something that I have never done before this Christmas: I read Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. I enjoyed it very much and had fun reading it aloud to my children. They were especially interested that so much of the dialogue in the latest animated film (starring Jim Carey) is word-for-word from the book. There…
