Category: General
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We need not worry that [prayer] will take up too much of our time, for “It takes up no time, but it occupies all our time.” It is not prayer in addition to work but prayer simultaneous with work. We precede, enfold, and follow all our work with prayer. Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline…
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Christian meditation, very simply, is the ability to hear God’s voice and obey his word. Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline, Chapter 2 Meditation is a discipline that many Christians don’t understand, or have an incorrect understanding of. The meditation talked about in popular culture involves clearing your mind and releasing negative energy. It is…
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One of my favorite books on the topic of Christian discipline is the book by Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline. It is an extremely challenging book, but at the same time it opened my eyes to new ways of practicing what Foster lists as the 12 disciplines of the Christian Faith. Foster, in Chapter…
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William Law Continues… If our common life is not a common course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians. A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life Here Law lists off a few virtues of Christianity, virtues that cannot be…
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I, along with a close friend, will be preparing a 5-part sermon series on the Book of 1 John over the next few months. We would both covet your prayers during this time as this is a task neither of us have tackled before. I will begin the series on June 29, and the other…
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If we are to be in Christ new creatures, we must show that we are so, by having new ways of living in the world. If we are to follow Christ, it must be in our common way of spending every day. William Law, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life If I…
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If we should not allow God’s hand to guide us, and continue to try on our own, He will attempt to show us what it is really like without His guidance by removing His hand completely. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His…
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From Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis When you teach a child writing, you hold its hand while it forms the letters: that is, it forms the letters because you are forming them. We love and reason because God loves and reasons and holds our hand while we do it. There can be no love, no…
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This is absolutely astounding, from C.S Lewis’s Case for Christ by Art Lindsley, P. 19. Once when I was invited to his rooms after dinner for a glass of beer, he played a game. He directed, ‘Give me a number from one to forty.’ I said, ‘thirty’. He acknowledged, ‘Right, go to the thirtieth shelf…
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It was an unusual Easter Church Service. The service was certainly focused on Christ, however, Revelation was used as the main text in order to focus our minds on the Glory of the Risen One. Revelation is a book of prophecy, however what is more important than knowing what will happen in the end, is…
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