“To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.” – Aiden Wilson Tozer
“There is no peace like the peace of those whose minds are possessed with full assurance that they have known God, and God has known them, and that this relationship guarantees God’s favor to them in life, through death and on forever.” - JI Packer What does it mean to know your God as it …
Continue reading Familiarity, Not Facts; Intimacy, Not Information.
Apparently, I miscalculated the amount of liquids I needed to drink while hiking six miles at 10,000 feet in elevation. I had forgotten just how much liquid I would expirate while gasping and wheezing uphill at that elevation, I suspect. This miscalculation would come back to haunt me in the middle of night. It would …
“Indeed, taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident better or more variously supported than the Resurrection of Christ. Nothing but the antecedent assumption that it must be false could have suggested the idea of deficiency in the proof of it.” ― Brooke Foss …
Think back: who has been your closest and most enjoyable friend? Close friendships, those that cross over into the realm if intimate friendships, are vital to our well-being. In the first of three blog posts on relating and relationships, I covered the research on why these relationships are vital to us. Having that friend with …
Why would the man do that? Maximillian Kolbe, catholic priest and Polish prisoner at the Auschwitz death camp, is remembered for his voluntary death in the place of a fellow prisoner, a man he did not know. Kolbe had sheltered many from the harsh treatment of the Nazis, and had helped more than 2000 Jews …
One Pursuit 