Yesterday we discussed our general failure to listen. If we don’t listen, we don’t really know others and without knowledge of who people really are, we don’t really love them. We also don’t listen to God. The issues are a bit more complicated and the […]
Month: February 2010
No One Really Listens
I have been a bit “drifty” this week. A few days ago OC used the same title for his devotional on consecutive days, “”Are You Ready to Be Offered.” My mind would not accept this, so I skipped the second day with that title. Therefore, […]
One Nation Under God
I have the honor of speaking to the Lafayette One Nation Under God group next week. We will meet at the Public Library South on Johnston St, Lafayette, Monday, Feb. 15, 2010 at 6:30 PM. I will present “Re-establishing One Nation Under God – One […]
Is Your Hope in God Faint and Dying
Rosemary and I were discussing last night one of the problems of aging: loss of memory: Walking into a room and forgetting why I went there, being unable to bring to your lips the name of someone close. Conversations at breakfast which I normally have […]
Is Your Imagination for God Starved?
Once again OC comes up with a fascinating concept: the starvation of our imagination of God. “The people of God in Isaiah’s day had starved their imagination by looking on the face of idols, and Isaiah made them look up at the heavens, that is, […]
Are You Spiritually Exhausted
I slept like a log last night. I was completely exhausted. Sometime during the game I got a several inch long cut on my arm. It was a tough game. It will be useless to try to accomplish much today. I’m still too high. The […]
How Much Sanctification are You Ready For?
We understand that sanctification is a process that begins when we are saved. But why is it a process? Why doesn’t God just make us instantaneously everything we are meant to be? I am reminded of the court room exchange in the movie “A Few […]
The Discipline of Dejection
This little graphic is from the Walk to Emmaus web site. The Walk is similar to Cursillo. These are the ministries on which Kairos, the prison ministry is based. After Jesus’ death and Resurrection, disciplines were walking to Emmaus, confused and dejected by the recent […]