Today, I am encouraged that everything is working together to conform me to the image of God’s Son (Rom. 8:28-29). “Everything” includes successes and failures, strengths and weaknesses, righteousness and sins. Nothing is outside God’s redemptive power and use.
Category: The Gospel
Slaves of Death
“Now since the children have flesh and blood in common, Jesus also shared in these, so that through His death He might destroy the one holding the power of death–that is, the Devil–and free those who were held in slavery all their lives by the fear of death” (Hebrews 2:14-15). Certainly, the above verses…
Keep on the Shunny Shide
A book I’m reading advocates for the Matthew 18 model of church discipline: If someone sins, talk to him one on one. If he doesn’t respond, re-approach with two or three others. If that doesn’t work, take him before the church. If he doesn’t listen to the church, “let him be like an unbeliever and…
Conversations with God
In other posts, I’ve talked about my conversion, talking myself out of my conversion, investigating eastern religions, and finally returning to Christianity. Soon after deciding to re-investigate Christianity, I ran into one of Jehovah’s Witnesses (JW’s) and got entangled with them for six months. I will spare you a long description of that little foray. One…
Knowing the Satisfied God–Rabon Byrd
Knowing the Satisfied God–Rabon Byrd A few months back, one of my Facebook friends posted a quote that caught my attention. The quote was from a book he had written, and he was meditating on it. I asked for a copy of the book and a pdf version of Knowing the Satisfied God appeared in my…
The Fullness of Every Message
When it comes to the Bible, I am passionate about one thing above all others—seeing Christ in every scripture (Luke 24:44-46). While I acknowledge other messages in scripture, Christ is the fullness of every other message. We must see that Christ is the end of old covenant laws. He is the substance of the commandments…
God Is Peace
Gentle soundless seeksinkless dea(p)th touching pain at every inside outside soothed surrounded floating cell self sealed beneath untrapped enwombed free child of soft vast rolling placentasm heavenly emptied pure safe purged far far away from obscene screaming concrete necessities. Gratefully I am totally blissfully eternally lost at the bottom of the ocean.
What the Cross Means to Me–Katie McKamey
My daughter attends a Christian School. Above is a picture of something she wrote for school around Easter. In her own words, she talks about the meaning of the cross. It is simple, without pretenses, and beautiful. Truly, God has prepared praise from the mouths of children and infants (Matt. 21:16). Read what she wrote…
Little Dr. Christiansteins
“You bring stolen, lame, or sick animals. You bring this as an offering! Am I to accept that from your hands?” asks the Lord. (Malachi 1:13). This verse addresses the Levites. The Levites were the priests of Israel, the keepers and teachers of God’s law. They knew that sacrificing a defective animal violated the law (Lev. 1:3, 10)….
No Greater Love
Image from The Passion of the Christ (Mel Gibson, 2004) In the garden of Gethsemane, tears and bloody sweat dripped from Jesus’s face. He was praying hard, asking if there was any way out of the cross: “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as…
The Voice of One 