I often wonder about real love. I listen to stories of relationships where people have been used and abused and they’ve stuck around longer than is healthy because of love. A love they have for the person and a love they perceive is reciprocated in some bizarre fashion by the one claiming to love them. […]
Read More Everlasting Love – Cece WinansComing from a Sabbath-keeping church tradition and then seeing things from a different perspective, it’s sometimes shameful seeing some of the conduct that we maintain in that tradition. One of them that’s particularly shameful is on a typical Sabbath service at the end of the morning study and the moderator/superintendent looks to give a welcome […]
Read More Hospitality: A ChallengeSo still on the relationship trip that we’ve been on for a few days now and there’s something marvellous about the relationship we develop with God that moves us beyond piety and pretence to desperation and admitted nakedness. It’s easy to put on masks for the public but in prayer to develop a knowing of […]
Read More I Need You Now – Smokie NorfulEvery word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar. (Proverbs 30:5-6) Food and drink today are not what they used to be. I cannot imagine people of my grandparents’ generation being […]
Read More MTP30 – No AdditivesWhoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy. (Proverbs 28:13) Where my understanding is of this Christian journey is that it’s not what it was cracked up to be. There is this super-pious image of the super-Christian with a quote for everything but more of a […]
Read More MTP28 Confess and Forsake – Repent and BelieveI was walking home one evening recently and as I was walking home I knew I needed to go get some little groceries to tide us over as a family for a little while longer. As I made me way to the place it occurred to me that nothing beats marriage. Now this is not […]
Read More Nothing Beats MarriageDo not put yourself forward in the king’s presence or stand in the place of the great, for it is better to be told, “Come up here,” than to be put lower in the presence of a noble. (Pro 25:6-7a) It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it glorious to seek one’s […]
Read More MTP25 It’s Not About You At AllDo not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles, lest the LORD see it and be displeased, and turn away his anger from him. (Proverbs 24:17-18) Do not say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will pay the man back for […]
Read More MTP24 Wouldn’t Wish It For Your Worst EnemyI wrote the majority of this at the beginning of March with the intention of just editing it here and there and posting it. Such is life that time flew by and I wasn’t able to post it, but it’s still very much relevant as an update on where things are now. No matter how […]
Read More DMCD Update – Better Late …Wisdom is for life not just for reading in a book called Proverbs. It’s all well and good to get stirred and inspired by words on a page, but there’s something inspiring when it comes alive in the human experience. Take for example … Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his […]
Read More MTP19 Wisdom Has You Covered
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