The gospel offers hope when family feuds cause problems
Friday, December 18th, 2009 Posted in recomended article, wisdom | No Comments »The Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation has posted a portion of Tim Lane’s booklet, Family Feuds: How to Respond. The author summarizes his booklets with these words: Christmas is coming and that means family get-togethers. ...
Why we should admire God and not humanity
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 Posted in wisdom | No Comments »God loves it when man boasts in God, and God hates it when man boasts in man. “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord” (2 Corinthians 10:17). “Far be it from me to boast except ...
Martin Luther reflects on the Lord’s Prayer: and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.
Saturday, December 5th, 2009 Posted in wisdom | No Comments »And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Being taught by grace, we are to be under the persuasion that every man is a ...
Give thanks… for CONFLICT???
Saturday, November 28th, 2009 Posted in wisdom | No Comments »As usual, Paul [in Philippians 4:2-9] urges us to be God-centered in our approach to conflict. Moreover, he wants us to be joyfully God-centered. Realizing we may skip over this point, Paul repeats it: "Rejoice in the ...
Make Christ the source, the centre, and the circumference of all thy soul’s range of delight
Friday, November 27th, 2009 Posted in wisdom | No Comments »Many saints are content to live like men in coal mines, who see not the sun; they eat dust like the serpent when they might taste the ambrosial meat of angels; they are content to wear the miner’s garb when ...
G.K. Chesterton on Thanksgiving
Thursday, November 26th, 2009 Posted in wisdom | No Comments »Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace. You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and ...
Giving thanks for everyday miracles – Martin Luther
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 Posted in wisdom | No Comments »Psalm 111 Praise the LORD! I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart, in the company of the upright, in the congregation. (2) Great are the works of the LORD, studied by all who delight in ...
The Gospel… Old vs. New
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 Posted in wisdom | No Comments »Kevin DeYoung has posted a wonderful reflection on the Gospel and how it is so often distorted in our age. DeYoung writes: Paul’s approach with non-Christians in Athens is instructive for us (Acts 17:16-34). First, Paul ...
A Prayer of Gratitude
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 Posted in wisdom | No Comments »From The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions O My God, Thou fairest, greatest, first of all objects, my heart admires, adores, loves thee, for my little vessel is ...
Reflections on Anger
Friday, February 20th, 2009 Posted in recommended sites, wisdom | No Comments »I have come across two articles on anger that I think are worth your time to read: In his article The Economy of Anger, Mark Galli explores tome of the ways that our current economic crisis is eating ...
What is Mercy Anyway?
Saturday, February 14th, 2009 Posted in wisdom | No Comments »I have often challenged people to spend time thinking through the relationship between justice and mercy. Tim Lane and Paul Tripp have written an excellent reflection on the subject which I quote in part below. Please read the entire (brief!)excerpt ...
It is God’s nature to make something out of nothing
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 Posted in wisdom | No Comments »Psalm 38:21 "Do not forsake me, O Lord! O my God, be not far from me!" "'I am lonely, forsaken by all and despised. Do Thou receive me, and do not forsake me.' It is God's nature to make ...
11 Things Snow Can Tell Us
Friday, January 9th, 2009 Posted in recommended sites, wisdom | No Comments »Johnathon Bowers on 11 things snow can tell us: "Minneapolis is in a deep chill today. Both of my car doors were frozen shut this morning. Thankfully, there is a cloak of snow over everything to bring a beauty ...
We Press Forward
Monday, January 5th, 2009 Posted in wisdom | No Comments »No man profits from regarding a sore that is not his own; He ought to care for his own, and imitate the wise. No man profits from thinking on his virtues; He rather ...
O Wisdom – December 17th
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 Posted in recommended sites, wisdom | No Comments »Rev. William M. Cwirla is writing a daily series based on the O Antiphons. You can read his first reflection on how Christ is Holy Wisdom by clicking HERE.
