Tag: Christian Life
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Obedience and Opportunities
(On the Essential Practice of Preemptive Obedience first published by Seedbed.com) Numbers 13:27-29 They came back to Moses and Aaron on the whole Israelite community at Kadesh in the desert of Paran. There they reported to them the whole assembly and showed them the fruit of the land. They gave Moses this account “We went…
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After
2 Corinthians 5:16-21 16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come far. The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All this is from God,…
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God Symbols
I am editing and rewriting the fifth novel of my science fiction series. The society (the Snow People of Shushimee) the travelers encounter in this book had a written language at one time and, because it was associated with rituals they no longer understood, they had come to see it as evil. They knew…
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Hope is an Anchor
Word pictures sometimes brings faith alive. Here is a new picture of faith’s anchor.
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God Did it Again
I had taken a year off to work part time because both of us were working full time. I explored part-time work. Thought I might contract with a funeral home in OKC. Everyone was set. They needed no one. Plan set aside. Loierrty-years (Hand covering mouth so you won’t know how many) later God…
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Review of People of Faith In A Changing World
Review People of Faith in a Changing World By David Ramous https://offsetinnocence.wordpress.com/author/offsetinnocence I love devotionals (hence why I’m writing a whole series of them). A good devotional is like ahealthy snack The author has to really understand what they want to say and then communicate the truth in a short, digestible means – one that…
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People of Hope
I Corinthians 13:10 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love Squeezed between faith and charity is that little word, hope. I have come to believe the shape of the world today is because so many people no longer have hope. People (with the exception of those who…
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