“To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.” – Aiden Wilson Tozer
"Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be made complete in the same mind and in the same judgment." This passage, 1 Corinthians 1:10, lays out the will of our God concerning …
Image via author, Ice Lake, Wallowa Mountains, Oregon In our last post on true faith, we learned that Paul says works without faith is dead. James says faith without works is dead, but faith that produces obedience is a justifying faith. How shall we measure the truth of our faith? We can do so against …
Image via author, White Cloud Peaks, Idaho The writer of Hebrews stated that "...without faith it is impossible to please God...." But how shall we understand the nature of true faith? Some argue that faith requires no action, that belief in the facts is sufficient to count as true faith. These will point to Romans …
Some Monday fun to start your week off well! My artistic skills improve by the end of the second mug for the day. Better living through chemistry. Indeed.
Image via author, Emigrant Wilderness, Sierra Nevada In the previous post entitled, "I'm Hatin' Life Right Now," I posed this question: "What would bring people to “hate this life,” meaning to forsake all to be inhabited fully by His life?" And the answer is love. "When one gives oneself over to loving our God above …
Image via author, Bighorn Range, Wyoming Among my wilderness partners of years gone by were several people who had this interesting response to the question, “How is it going?” If things were not going well, the answer was a kind of code that let you know times were difficult. I heard it most often when …
Image via Author, Bighorn Range, Wyoming Our God intends to have conversational communion with us in which He will reveal important things to us. In this conversational communion we can speak to our God about lives and daily living in simple, easy language, and Jesus will also speak to us. It is truly a two-way …
Image via Author, Bighorn Range, Wyoming There is a fun little book that a friend gave me to read. I could not put it down. The book, “Love Does” by Bob Goff, is about how Bob and his family have chosen to do whatever God puts in their hearts to express love for people …
Image via Author, Bighorn Range, Wyoming As identified in the last post, Jesus identified the foremost or greatest commandment as the command to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. There are good reasons for Jesus to say this, good reasons for us to take these words seriously. This …
Today's quotes are all from A.B. Simpson. “We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights in an eternal covenant, and give God the absolute right to own us, control us and possess us forever.” “The Church was never intended to be …
One Pursuit 