WORDS OF WISDOM”The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”ERNEST HEMINGWAY I was very much one whose default mode was to trust others for many years. What made me a skeptic about trusting people for a few years was having some...
“God will allow the layers you depended on to fall away, so that all that is left is pure trust; no props, no pretense. Whatever is a distraction He will remove. Connections that jeopardize your integrity, He will remove. He will cause a “divine stripping” to clear...
Just pondering Judeo- Christian faith, internecine conflicts, spiritual conflict resolution, and peacemaking in Christ. …. Jews living in the “truth”, i.,e., the “Word” (defined by the OT available at the time of Christ) lived Judaism in the literal, physical, ethnic,...
)CBByrd 3/19/2022). Even in the wilderness, darkness or midst of battle…… “It’s not a dead end if God took you there for a purpose.” Character in movie “Unconditional” If you find yourself in any such place, God’s redemptive power...
Spiritual awakening begins with a profound awareness of God’s awesome holiness on one side, our absolute sinfulness on the other, and our complete inability to bridge the chasm between the two. Only Jesus Christ can cover the gap. Revival always starts with the...
“Gifts from God that are not acknowledged as such are deadly to the soul, because they thicken the illusion of self-sufficiency that leads to over-confidence and sets us up for failure.”. Tim Keller, Prayer, Chapter 8. I awoke in the night with someone on...