Michael Milton relates an episode from his past life experience of receiving a safety warning while working on an oil field and draws a parallel application to spiritual health: [The warning from his foreman] “When you smell rotten-eggs at the well site, boys, you are smelling a poisonous, corrosive, flammable gas that is hydrogen sulfide. …
The transition from outside the kingdom into the kingdom happens all at once. The transition of the character of the lives that have gone from completely outside to completely inside takes longer. We shouldn’t be discouraged. As Joel Littlefield writes Things That Matter Rarely Happen Fast. Jesus said that the Kingdom of God is like …
Januarys being what they are pastors can find themselves looking at ourselves and others wondering if disciples of Jesus have made any progress during the previous twelve months. That can be a very, very depressing activity if we don’t hold on to the fact that, unlike justification, that sanctification is a progressive work that is …
A reflective article about life with chronic illness and trust in God by Stephanie Phillips. An excerpt: I had the thought the other day: what if I never change? I don’t remember what I was doing: making yet another dinner, folding some more laundry, mediating another child-fight, battling another impulse to emit a primal scream. …
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