Grace abounds when believers are enjoying the goodness of Father God. The proud will always keep God at an arms distance, for they are secure with some part of themselves. The humble know the sweetness of communion with the good Father, because they have nothing else to cling to but His riches.
Tag Archives: Discipleship
Praxis: Right-doing, Part 4
Faith is a living and active thing. It is alive by nature. Faith results in active good. Works are the life inside the bones of faith. Works make religion true.
Praxis: Right-doing, Part 2
Love touches our possessions. Love grabs a hold on our resources. Our time and means are leveraged by the love of the Lord Jesus for His glory and the growth of His kingdom.
Praxis: Right-doing, Part 1
All hard things are for our good and for God’s glory. The tough situations in life are not orchestrated for our defeat but for God’s magnification in our lives. Trials are platforms for the worship of God.
Beautiful Attitudes, Part 9
Insults are platforms for the worship of God. When others spit in our face, we can praise God lavishly. When others let hate spew out liberally, we can choose to be a fountain of blessing in the name of Jesus.
Beautiful Attitudes, Part 8
We reflect our conception of God to the world by the way we live. When the world presses down on us, what will spill out? Will our old nature raise its rough head? Will Jesus living in us speak the Words of Scripture? We must practice living the regenerate life that God has placed within our hearts.
Beautiful Attitudes, Part 7
The peace in the heart of the Jesus-follower is the basis of heartfelt worship. This peace is the knowledge of life and light that wells up within our souls.
Beautiful Attitudes, Part 3
Jesus had power under control. Gentleness is the result of self discipline. Each and every moment of the day must be brought under the strict discipline of Jesus. We can apply this discipline of gentleness to our condition because Jesus took it upon Himself and fulfilled it perfectly.
LORD, Shepherd My Soul! Part 3
The Good Shepherd will herd the inclinations of the individual. The Good Shepherd can see the path ahead and He will out maneuver the sheep so that they will return to it.
LORD, Shepherd My Soul! Part 1
Jesus Christ is our immediate and ever-present Shepherd through His helping Holy Spirit. He is not above drawing up alongside of us in our needs and desperation and bearing up under the load we struggle under, taking it off our weary shoulders and freeing us in the grace of His completed victory.
POIEMA: Created for Truth 