What We Assume vs. What Jesus Says

This morning I was reading in Mark 10 and the contrast between the things Jesus said and what the disciples had assumed to be true struck me. They assumed that divorce was OK, but it wasn’t. They assumed children could not be near Jesus, but they could. They assumed that wealth showed [...]

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Needs and Idolatry: An Interesting Quote

From When People Are Big and God Is Small by Ed T. Welch:
“To look to Christ to meet our perceived psychological needs is to Christianize our lusts.  We are asking God to give us what we want, so we can feel better about ourselves, or so we can have happiness, not holiness, in our lives.”

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A great reminder on Independence Day…

…a declaration of dependence.

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New Blog Advocating for Persecuted Believers

ICC has started Crossing the Bridge. Please check it out and encourage others to do so as well.

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If I were the only person on earth?

“I have often heard it said, ‘If I had been the only person on the earth, Jesus would still have died for me.’ Although our Lord could have given his life for just one person, it most certainly would not have been because that person was so valuable, but because God was so gracious. Such [...]

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Some links of note…

…Tim Challies suggests books for Christmas gifts.
…My favorite Christian writer, Randy Alcorn, has a blog.
…some interesting thoughts on what it means to be community as a church.
…and Christianity as both inclusive and exclusive.
…and by the same writer a piece on on why some of us don’t take criticism very well.
…a workplace related post on when [...]

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Twelfth Lesson of With Christ in the School of Prayer

And Jesus answered saying to them, “Have faith in God. “Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is going to happen, it will be granted him. Therefore I say to [...]

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