My gracious favour is all you need. My power works best in your weakness…Since I know it’s all for Christ’s good, I am quite content with my weaknesses and with insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. (!) For when I am weak, then I am strong.—Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his […]
“I have loved you deeply,” says the LORD. But you retort, “Really? How have you loved us?” I am not at all pleased with you, says the LORD Almighty, and I will not accept your offerings…Listen to me and take it to heart. Honour my name…it was I who sent you this warning so that […]
Does God know joy? Can you picture it? I am reading these days the story of Jayber Crow*, a fictitious barber in small town Kentucky in the nostalgic past. He is the creation of Wendell Berry–author, nature-lover, and farmer. Berry is also a bit of a poet. I sat with my little lunch catching the […]
I have been ignored as if I were dead, as if I were a broken pot.—But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.—For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ […]
And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head…And some scolded her. But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do […]