On January 18, 2015 I attended Monrovia Fellowship for the first time. The evening’s theme was “Come Home.” Early in the meeting everyone was encouraged to stand, greet their neighbor and ask, “What reminds you of home?” We weren’t given the reason for asking the question, but in hindsight, it was to prepare the audience … Read More →
Jesus Bought Our Sins
Jesus bought our sins. He paid for them with his life. Are you still pretending you own them? … Read More →
Several Shades of Gray
I awoke about 4:50 this morning and realized that I have been robbing myself and everyone else, and therefore God. Rather than living the full spectrum of human emotional color, I have emoted only several shades of gray. Having absorbed by osmosis my mother’s trauma-induced emotional shutdown as my normal way of doing life, intellect … Read More →
You Have the Mind of Christ
God’s Holy Spirit inspired Christ’s apostle Paul to write at 1 Corinthians 2, 16 “We have the mind of Christ.” Then in the very next verse, (3,1) he writes, “Brothers, I was not able to speak to you as spiritual people but as people of the flesh, as babies in Christ. I gave you milk … Read More →
You Don’t Belong to Yourself
I believe we are born with the mind of Christ, and then learn to ignore it as we grow older and are taught to conform to the world so that we fit in. Otherwise, we are misfits. Few are the parents who want their children to be misfits. So, as an older person, in order … Read More →
Surrender to Jesus
What follows are summaries of the Daily Devotional commentaries in Oswald Chambers’ classic My Utmost for His Highest. He devotes almost ten percent of his commentaries to the subject of surrendering our right to ourselves to Jesus Christ. If you are at that place in your life where you know that you can’t do a good … Read More →
It’s OK to to Take Good Care of Yourself.
http://traffic.libsyn.com/hallowedbeyournameorg/Take_Good_Care_of_Yourself.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadMy child, I’m taking good care of you. So, it’s OK for you to take good care of yourself, too. Do you not enjoy beautiful things? They’re my gift to you. Does your body heal itself? That’s me taking care of you. Do you have friends? That’s the way … Read More →
A Better Way of Being Stable
I was born when my mother was twenty-five. By that time she had already lost her first husband in a motorcycle accident on the ice in New York. She next lost the father of her first child in WWII, after which her daughter was kidnapped and never recovered. So I was born to a traumatized … Read More →
Love Your Neighbor AS Yourself
http://traffic.libsyn.com/hallowedbeyournameorg/Love_Your_Neighbor_AS_Yourself.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThe best way to love your neighbor AS yourself is to live in the presence of God. For to live in the presence of God is to live in the presence of love. As discussed in the article Love the LORD Your God, the most important way to love God … Read More →
Our Biggest Challenge, Following Our Shepherd’s Voice
http://traffic.libsyn.com/hallowedbeyournameorg/Our_greatest_Challenge.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadOur Shepherd’s Voice Do you know our Shepherd’s voice, the many ways in which He can speak to us? This article shows how vital it is that we do. Paul wrote that we have the mind of Christ. 1 Corinthians 2:16 We also have Jesus’ words, “I am the … Read More →
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