"Apart from Christ, I can do nothing." • John 15:5 … [Continue reading] about are you apart?
arriving
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, "Wow! What a ride!" Unknown … [Continue reading] about arriving
sweet fruit
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. • Jean Jacques Rousseau … [Continue reading] about sweet fruit
the passion
Jesus' suffering and death is not a Hatfields-and-McCoys story demanding retaliation. The gist of the religion that transformed the world is: God's only son came to Earth to take the punishment we deserved.If the Jews had somehow managed to block … [Continue reading] about the passion
wisdom from above
The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. • James 3:17 … [Continue reading] about wisdom from above