Have you ever puzzled over how it works that we are in a ‘fight of faith’, armed to the hilt against the ‘schemes of the devil’, ever alert and persevering, ever praying for ‘all the saints’… and yet called to REST. In fact we’re called to ‘strive to enter that rest!’ I don’t know about […]
The fight of faith is something I’ve been pondering. What is it? How does it work? I have snippets of reflections spread all over pages of random days… I’ve tried in vain to push away distractions and get down to pasting them together into a coherent understanding but this project is eluding me. Grandbabies are […]
Joy is the province of the believer. Though we have not seen Jesus we love Him. Though we do not see Him now yet we believe in Him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory. And the outcome of such faith?–the salvation of our souls. (Can I cite this verse here […]
“To them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ…” [continuing remarks on dialoging with non-believers about faith…] Heady stuff this business of dialoging about faith and the lack thereof. It’s easy to get sucked into the vortex of railing accusations, unfounded allegations and inflammatory […]
I’ve had an interesting challenge this week. I’ve been helping Rachel learn to write Book Reviews, only to discover for myself how difficult this can be! The best way to teach a thing is to first do it yourself. So I set out to review Gary Thomas’ book, Authentic Faith. The catch for me was […]