“Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers” (Luke 22:31-32). Have you been sifted? Are you being sifted? Every Christian is sifted. But when we have turned back, we […]
“And a highway shall be there, and it shall be called the Holy Way; the unclean shall not pass over it…” (Is. 35:8). unclean טָמֵא ṭâmê’ taw-may’ A primitive root; to be foul in a religious sense, especially ceremonial or moral (contaminated): – defile (self), pollute (self), be (make, make self, pronounce) unclean, utterly. Thank
In highly poetic symbolism, in Job 41, and elsewhere throughout the Bible, Leviathan is presented as different from an ordinary sea monster, because it cannot be captured; at least not by man, as Job exemplifies. God, however, is aloof and unaffected by the terror with which He ascribes to Leviathan. Through the context of the
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“Others, again, seeing their own imperfections, become angry with themselves with an impatience that is not humble. They are so impatient with their shortcomings as if they would be saints in one day. Many of these make grand resolutions, but being self-confident and not humble, the more they resolve, the more they fall, and the
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What happens when a prayerful young peasant receives a whisper so powerful that she dares not tell it? She hugs the secret close. And it is incarnated. Going over and over the reality in her mind, she touches it timidly and unwraps it with equally unspeakable thrill each time. Looking at its significance from every
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[sg_popup id=”1″ event=”hover”][/sg_popup] What do you do when cut-backs, job loss, tragic accidents, stalkers, haters, marital strife, postpartum, and overwhelming debt (all at one time!) threaten to blow you away? You dare to let God love and lift you up to fly. Jas 4:17 Whoever knows what is right to do and fails to do
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[sg_popup id=”1″ event=”hover”][/sg_popup] What happens when you dare to allow God to challenge a lifelong “packaged” belief? You grow. There is no other way. First my father wound and Martin Luther’s writings, and now, how the familiar tabernacle and Bible brought me to the Church. Our next series, After This Our Exile, Making Sense of
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[sg_popup id=”1″ event=”hover”][/sg_popup] What happens when you dare to search beneath the surface? Here’s the story of how Jesus used the unlikely combination of Martin Luther, Protestantism, and a father wound to change me from a zealous Southern Baptist into a passionate Catholic. Early Church writings, the Ante Nicene Fathers. Image: https://unsplash.com/@heytowner
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