January 13, 2023 “You won the game, Damar — the game of life.” ~ Dr. Timothy Pritts On January 2, 2023, the Buffalo Bills were in Cincinnati, OH, to take on the Cincinnati Bengals on Monday Night Football. Early in the game, Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin suffered a hit in the chest in… Read More »
The Distance Between Sin and Salvation
“The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes people look to themselves for salvation.” ~ Charles Spurgeon If you were to measure the distance between sin and salvation on a scale of 0-100, sin representing 0 and salvation 100, how would you rate yourself? How would you define salvation? Oxford Dictionary… Read More »
The Lord “is” or “my” Shepherd?
“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.” ~ Alexander the Great Psalm 23 A psalm of David. 23 The Lord is my shepherd. I lack nothing. 2 He lets me rest in grassy meadows; he leads me to restful waters; 3 he… Read More »
Three Types of Meditation
“Meditation is about cultivating constructive emotions, like altruism, compassion.” ~ Matthieu Ricard Renowned meditation researchers Cortland Dahl, Antoine Lutz, and Richard Davidson of The Center for Healthy Minds put meditation practices into three families: attentional, constructive, and deconstructive.¹ Attentional: Beginning with the attentional family, these are meditation practices that include counting the breath, body scanning,… Read More »
Rise Up
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” ~ Confucius From the moment we learn to walk, we discover what it means to fall. We fall in all kinds of ways. We fall physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. We say things like “I have fallen out of touch… Read More »
The Light of Easter
“We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won’t need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don’t fire cannons to call attention to their shining – they just shine.” ~ Dwight L. Moody People experience Easter in many different ways. For most Christians, it’s time for celebration and to sing “Hallelujah.”… Read More »
What’s So Good About Good Friday?
What is good about Good Friday? Why isn’t it called Bad Friday? Because out of the appallingly bad came what was inexpressibly good. And the good trumps the bad because though the bad was temporary, the good is eternal.” ~ Randy Alcorn What’s so “good” about Good Friday? That is a fair question. When you… Read More »
Kingdom Salvation
“Sanctification is not a work of nature, but a work of grace. It is a transformation of character effected not by moral influences, but supernaturally by the Holy Spirit.” ~ Charles Hodge The world is full of Christians who have knowledge of God and rebirth but have never truly experienced kingdom salvation. Their eyes are… Read More »
We Were Reborn
“Many Christians have the mistaken notion that eternal life begins when they die. But that is not biblically accurate. Eternal life begins when we are born again into the Kingdom of God.” ~ David Jeremiah What if someone asks you “what does it mean to be born again,” how would you respond? There are many… Read More »
The Purpose of the Cross
“When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.” ~ Pope Francis If asked about the… Read More »
