Prepared for our local paper, The Border Watch. Sometimes the grass really is greener. Spending a week away in Sydney the grass is so lush and green everywhere. The trees throughout the suburbs are so large and foliage so dense. Watered by the abundant summer rain and encouraged by sunshine and humidity the plant life …
If a sermon only leaves us looking at Bible figures, or people from history, or those around us as our example for growth in faith, we are left adrift of the one who is the author and perfecter of the Christian’s faith. From a post on Christ-Centered Preaching by Peyton Hill at B21: Christ-centered preaching …
Bryan Chapell reminds us that means of grace are not means to grace. We don’t participate in the to get something, but because we’re receiving something.
Rosaria Butterfield entered Christianity and found a set of words that spoke of what she had become, and what she shares with those around her. An excerpt from a longer post: As I stumbled around, awkward and uncomfortable in the new creation that I had become, longing for the old days, the old me, the …
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