Values
“Whether we realize it or not, we are growing in the image of something or someone every day of our lives. We can easily become living...
Spiritual Blindness and Deafness
“There are both different degrees of blindness as well as different kinds of blindness. There is physical blindness in which the eyes...
Body and Soul/Spiritual and Physical
“… to follow our Risen Lord into the joy of the resurrection, we must also open our deepest personal struggles and wounds to Him for...
Faith and Reason
“Faith is critical if we are not to remain earthbound. Divine matters cannot be comprehended with the mind, but we are conditioned in our...
Hope
“Christians are told by the authors of the New Testament to rejoice and be people of hope. However, living in the same world as...
Sacrifice
“The sacrificial system of the Old Testament is not the slaughter of innocent creatures in order to appease the wrath of an angry god...
Heart and Mind
“The Hebrew word לֵב (lev) “heart” includes the mind. Hebrew does not separate “heart knowledge” and “head knowledge.” While “heart” may...
Worship
“Here are two types of worshipers—one (Cain) merely discharges a duty at the proper time, while the other (Abel) goes out of his way to...
Awareness (and Prayer)
“…by prayer, we practice the habit of keeping God “before our eyes.” Eventually, our constant awareness of the Lord’s presence in prayer...
Blessed, Blessedness and Blessings
“Our Lord Jesus Christ entered into this world to endure its suffering. He did not simply remove it from us, He shared in it. And as a...