We are citizens of heaven living on earth, not people from heaven seeking to become citizens here. That difference should show in our priorities and in our relationships. From D.A. Horton. Living as exiles means that fighting for political power isn’t our main objective, suffering together well as we reach the lost in our society …
Maybe its because I’ve started cranking the treadmill at the gym up to a bit of a canter in the mornings, but this article by Stephen McAlpine caught my eye. A 51 year old pastor with a passion for running McAlpine comments on completing the second half of a recent half-marathon (about 10kms) in a …
Scott Hubbard writes a short article about how God prepares us to face major trials by taking his people through multiple smaller trials of more mundane significance. How we teach ourselves to react with the smaller will be how we react to the larger seasons of adversity. The little trials you meet today are not …
Grace has to be the total paradigm, mix it with anything else and it can’t exist. From Paul Zahl. How can grace end-run its way around standards and yardsticks? It sounds unfair. It is unfair, but it is completely unfair. It is the other side of the law, which is total grappling, a totally unsuccessful …
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