There are a few things that God didn’t tell you when you were born—or even ask your permission to do! Stay with me on this wry look at an imaginary scene in heaven. Suppose the Father had seated you on His loving knee and asked if you wanted to help Him out with a little rescue campaign He was operating on planet Earth (I know that nobody is in heaven before they’re born—just play along)…
Thanking God for blessings is child’s play compared to what is actually set before us as the answer to life’s hardest problems. What do you do when you are reeling from the blows of adversity and emotional pain? The Word tells us to thank God in all things and for all things. He does not causes evil, but He can overturn it, bringing a greater blessing out of it than any evil the enemy put into it in the first…
The self-emptying of Jesus Christ is one of the great wonders of His Incarnation—and it is also highly instructive for us, since we too must learn the way to decrease, so that He can increase. Here is the “Why, What and How” of it as well as I can make out. Just remember please that trying to peer into a Mystery is like walking into a fog. Sometimes all you get are vague impressions. Fortunately, devotion (unlike doctrine)…
This is the preface from a truly unbelievable story that I was sitting on for almost 40 years. I had been threatening for some time to write down my years before Christ, saying it would be a tale “no one would believe,” but that it needed to be written anyway. Seems like the Lord agreed—I was provided a mountain retreat for two weeks and the project simply took wings. Rescued from Hell: An Odyssey of Deception and Discovery Preface In…
