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Articles featuring books from which I’ve gleaned valuable truths

When Truth Seekers fail to find the truth that transforms

May I depart from my usual fare today to point you to my gleanings from a thought-provoking memoir I finished this week?  It was the title that caught my attention: Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever’s search for the Truth about Everything I’m always curious to hear people’s stories of finding truth and coming […]

October 12, 2019 Atheism, Faith, Truth / Deception Leave a comment

If only there were a mediator…

If only there were a mediator who could bring us together, but there is none. —Job The mediator could make God stop beating me, and I would no longer live in terror of His punishment.  Then I could speak to him without fear, but I cannot do that in my own strength…How can a person […]

August 23, 2018 Guilt, JamesJoyce, The Gospel Leave a comment

Clearing Streams that hinder Calling

The grands came out to spend the day this weekend.  Inevitably we found water to play in, even if it’s really too cold to be playing in water.  Of course there were many admonitions about ‘don’t get your feet wet’ but actually they thought they would like to take their shoes off and really get […]

September 20, 2017 Berry, Jayber Crow, Life Purpose 4 Comments

Knowing God

I have a lot of head-knowledge about God.  I’ve read His Word all my life.  Once-upon-a-lifetime before marriage and family I even earned a Bachelor in Biblical Studies; I learned some Greek, picked my way through the ins and outs of Biblical exegesis, worked my way through most of the books in the Bible with […]

August 21, 2015 Bible Reading, Blind spots, Head knowledge, J.I.Packer, Knowing God, Meditation 2 Comments

Listen for it. Listen for Him.

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? These words jumped from their immediate context (I Cor.6:19) to arrest my thoughts one day  not too long ago and their significance keeps echoing in my heart… Have I fathomed this? The eternal, […]

August 15, 2015 John Owen, Lovelace, Music, practicing the Presence, the Holy Spirit Leave a comment

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