“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.” – Walt Whitman
Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote, “The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.” Bonhoeffer is speaking to the fact that only those who are troubled and humbled by their own condition are able to …
In the previous two posts we explored how the world in which we live is in its entirety set against us. The world system is intended to destroy our faith and separate us from our God. The controller of this deceptive world system is Satan, and His purposes are dishonest and destructive. John the Apostle …
In the previous two posts, I have explored the power of the life of Christ in us to reduce and eliminate sin in our lives, and the difficulty we face living in a world completely controlled by Satan, the enemy of our God and ourselves. 1 John 5:19 tells us, "We know that we are …
In the previous post, we discovered that we are to not continue in sin primarily because we have been joined in union with our God. It is His life that is now to be lived in us and not our own life. Because of His life in us, we are to no longer sin. If …
1 John 5:18-20 “We know that no one who is born of God sins; but He who was born of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him. We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. And we know that …
“One of the strange things about God is that He will come in as far as we allow Him. I have often said that a Christian is as full of the Holy Spirit as he wants to be. We can beg to be filled with the Holy Spirit. We can talk about it, but until …
“Those who seek the deeper Christian life and those who want the riches that are in Christ Jesus the Lord seek no place, no wealth, no things, only Christ.” ― A.W. Tozer “Christ is Lord and can make any demands upon us that He chooses, even to the point of requiring that we deny ourselves …
We often hear of people who are considered enemies of Christ Jesus, a title we give to particularly harmful or evil people. We need to exercise caution in speaking of people in such language, especially considering we were all once in that same condition. Yet there is in scripture an example of a class of …
"In short, a man must be set free from the sin he is, which makes him do the sin he does." -- George MacDonald "The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ." - C.S. Lewis Our God is always seeking to transform us into …
"There was a day when I died; died to self, my opinions, preferences, tastes and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friends; and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God." - George Mueller The cross of …
