Photo by Carrie McKamey If you’ve followed The Voice of One at all, you know weakness is a theme that comes up regularly. I’m thinking about it again tonight. Weakness usually comes to mind when personal failures or shortcomings break out of me like a caged animal. Or when it seems my soul is surrounded…
Category: New Testament
I Don’t Mean to Step on Toes. I’m Just a Bad Dancer.
“Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” So they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household” (Acts 16:30-31). Disclaimer: I don’t mean to step on toes. I’m just a bad dancer. “What must I do to be saved?” This is THE question, isn’t it? The question for…
The Unknown Within
“I watched the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and He rested on Him. I didn’t know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The One you see the Spirit descending and resting on—He is the One who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’ I have seen and testified that He is the Son of God!”…
Give Me Your Worst
Sketch by Patrick Murphy “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness” (2 Cor. 12:9). “Grace” is the Life which can suffer and die yet be raised again. Christ in us is grace. He can go through weaknesses, difficulties, persecutions, and the like (2 Cor. 12:10). Not only do these not…
Who Are You, Lord?
Lepicie, “Conversion of St. Paul” “Who are you, Lord?” This was Paul’s question after Jesus struck him blind and stopped him in his tracks (Acts 9:1-5). Paul was on his way to Damascus where he planned to continue killing or imprisoning followers of Jesus. Then, the future apostle was a Pharisee. He learned under the…
Cancer. Suicide. Grief.
“One Act” by Patrick Murphy My dad died of cancer in 2009. For some reason, I’ve been thinking about him, missing him, and grieving the last couple days. I’m a social worker by occupation. I manage in-home caregiver services for people who are disabled and/or elderly. On New Year’s Eve, one of my clients killed…
NO FAIR!!
On my home from work, I drive past the reader board of a local church. This week, the reader board says, “May Justice and Peace Ring Out!” Justice is quite the buzz-word these days. In popular usage, it means things are “fair”: Everyone enjoys the same opportunities, advantages, and success. The playing field is level,…
Narrowing Sonnet
Could we put oceans in a cup, a desert in an hour-glass, the skies in a falling rain-drop, the planets in a marble-bag, it wouldn’t touch the Lord, swaddled in a body, who also humbly wore the girdle of our laws, was threaded through the streets of Jews, endured the spit and then was split…
What Child Is This?
What Child is this who, laid to rest On Mary’s lap is sleeping? Whom angels greet with anthems sweet, While shepherds watch are keeping? This, this is Christ the King, Whom shepherds guard and angels sing; Haste, haste, to bring Him laud, The Babe, the Son of Mary. Why lies He in such mean…
The Gospel According to Genesis
Created by Trey Hill \\ squarerootofnine.com Now, on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, the earth was formless and empty, darkness was on the face of the deep, and Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. Then God said, “LET…
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