Category: Christian Spirituality
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High Standards and Hypocrisy: Avoiding the Trap of a Divided Life
But nothing covered up isWhich shall not be uncovered,Nor hiddenWhich shall not be known;Wherefore whatever in the darkness ye said,In the light shall be heard;And what in the ear ye spoke in chambers,Shall be proclaimed upon housetops. (Luke 12:2-3, The Englishman’s Greek New Testament) If in life you do anything differently than other people–if you…
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God loves emotional wrecks
I’m feeling a little emotional today. (Ok, fine, I’m perched up in the top of an emotional tree and every time I look down I lose it a little.) My best friend, who has been with me all week, took a train home this afternoon, and I really dislike goodbyes. Being on the brink of…
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the storm
I read this last night in “Streams in the Desert” and loved it. It’s very applicable to things in my life right now. “I recollect, when a lad, and while attending a classical institute in the vicinity of Mount Pleasant, sitting on an elevation of that mountain, and watching a storm as it came up…
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Drunk on Worry (Sober and Free)
The apostle Peter, in his first letter to the saints, urged the people of God to “Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time. Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.” Many of us are well familiar with these verses, but we…
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Heather and Snow and One who Lives
From one of my favourite books, George MacDonald’s “Heather and Snow,” which is slated for publication by Little Dozen Press in the none-too-distant future. It is the story of Kirsty Barclay and her half-witted brother Steenie, whose chief joy is to wander the Highland mountains at night in search of “the bonny man” and His…
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The Power of Stillness
“There is no spectacle in all the Bible so sublime as the silent Savior answering not a word to the men who were maligning Him, and whom He could have laid prostrate at His feet by one look of Divine power, or one word of fiery rebuke. But He let them say and do their…