Under the foggy haze of pain medication during my second child’s delivery a problem in delivery gave me the impression that I was dying….I was not alarmed. I thought to myself simply, “This is what it feels like to die……” and...
Today Bill and I listened to a message by Dr. David Jeremiah. He was talking about meditation…..and how to meditate upon Scripture as we read and study. It is often in the context of study of God’s Word that He will speak to us as we reflect on and engage with the...
“O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens. When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human...
I was teaching a class recently. In the curriculum, a quote by C.S. Lewis was referenced: “God whispers to us in our pleasures, uuspeaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” -from The Problem of Pain Many...
There’s an interesting essay at the internetmonk blog site about “hearing” God. I encourage you to read it. http://www.internetmonk.com/articles/V/voicehead.html The author refers to the way in which evangelical Christians will say that they feel...
“Mysticism (from the Greek μυστικός (mystikos) “an initiate” , μυστήρια (mysteria) meaning “initiation” is the pursuit of achieving communion identity with, or conscious awareness of, ultimate reality, the divine, spiritual truth, or God...
