Some Monday morning fun to start the week. And you thought your Mondays are hard! Check these out. Pictures from author's collection of fun PowerPoint slides.
Notable and Quotable
Image via author, unnamed lake, Wallowa Mountains, Oregon. Julian of Norwich (1342-1416) is known mostly through her book, The Revelations of Divine Love, which is one of the great classics of the spiritual life. This may be the first book written by a woman in English which has survived. A non-conforming Anchorite, she lived in …
Happy Monday!
Dogs get the Monday thing. And a freebie: my dog, Jackson.
True Faith: All In
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 …
True Faith: Trust and Obey
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 …
Happy Monday!
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.
Notable and Quotable
"It is when this Lamb of God, by giving Himself within us, has brought forth a real birth of His own meekness, patience, and full resignation to God in our souls that our virgin hearts are made ready for the marriage feast - the highest state of union between God and the soul that can …
Happy Monday!
Some light to brighten your Monday. Image via LearingMind.com Gratitude is a choice that influences our happiness and our joy. Image via Author, White Cloud Peaks, Idaho
Hatin’ Life: Inhabited, Not Inhibited
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 …
Notable and Quotable
Image via author, unnamed lake, Wallowa Mountains, Oregon Alexander MacLaren (1826-1910), an English non-conformist minister who was born in Scotland. “Love is the foundation of all obedience.” “You have nothing to do but to receive the things that are freely given to you of God—the forgiveness, the cleansing, the life, that come from Christ by …
One Pursuit 