I must have started this post a couple of months ago… it’s been a while since I’ve dipped back into The Thought of God, which is a shame, because it’s a great book! However, the fact that the book is made up of a series of articles makes it very easy to pick up [...]
Thoughts on Isaiah 29:9-24
I came across these incredible verses last week while doing my quiet time:
9 Astonish yourselves [2] and be astonished; blind yourselves and be blind! Be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not with strong drink!
10 For the Lord has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes [...]
Celebrating Christ’s Birth
I’m woefully behind on posts – I have 4-5 stacked up waiting to either be finished or started… but I felt I needed to write something on this wonderful day of celebration!
Praise God for His incredible, unimaginable, unspeakable gift! He sent His Son into the world for sinners – for enemies – that He [...]
A matter of the heart
Driving home from visiting with family over Thanksgiving (yes, I started this post over a week ago and am just now getting around to finishing it), I was thinking about Ps. 119:1-2 and 36-37, which I memorized a couple of months ago:
1 Blessed are the undefiled in the way,
Who walk in the law of [...]
The Gospel vs. Religion and Irreligion
Here’s another great quote from Of First Importance:
“Christians come to see that both their sins and their best deeds have all really been ways of avoiding Jesus as savior. They come to see that Christianity is not fundamentally an invitation to get more religious. A Christian comes to say: “Though I have often failed to [...]
Initial thoughts on Isaiah 19:22
I woke up late today and didn’t do my quiet time, so I ended up re-reading Isaiah 19 by “accident” over a Chipotle burrito (yum!) today at lunch when I should have been in chapter 21. Part of the reason I didn’t realize I had already read 19 was because I recently started using [...]
