Monthly Archives: July 2011
CCM Classic Focus on Bob Ayala
Blinded in his youth, Bob Ayala began performing in 1969 at The Salt Company, a Christian coffeehouse in Los Angeles, CA. He released his first album in 1976 and was also voted Best New Artist that year by CCM readers. He later became involved with Keith and Melody Green‘s Last Days Ministries and released an [...]
The Mystery of His Face
A Psalms Study Psalm 131, New Century Version (NCV) Childlike Trust in the Lord A song for going up to worship. Of David. 1 Lord, my heart is not proud; I don’t look down on others. I don’t do great things, and I can’t do miracles. 2 But I am calm and quiet, like [...]
Wrong Things Said in Church
“There must be something wrong with your spiritual life.” Yes, depression CAN be a result of sin. BUT depression is NOT always a result of sin! If it is, God will tell you loud and clear what the problem is. This saying piles on the guilt for the depressed Christian. It’s unlikely that their depression [...]
Broken Dreams, On a Friend’s Suicide
This is a guest post from TheNorEaster, hope it blesses! A TheNorEaster Post. An old buddy of mine from high school recently committed suicide. I cried myself to sleep the night I got the news, praying passionately and begging God to have mercy upon him. John was the last person I would ever expect to take [...]
So You Want to Become Vulnerable?
______________ To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock [...]
A Charlie Brown Kind of a Depression
“This is my depressed stance. When you’re depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you’ll start to feel better. If you’re going to get any joy out of being depressed, you’ve got to stand like this.” [...]
Sheepy Wolves
Be careful of false prophets. They come to you looking gentle like sheep, but they are really dangerous like wolves. Matthew 7:15, NCV The old King James Version says, “which come to you in sheep’s clothing.” There is something to be said about both translations. Being aware. Jesus commands this awareness, this discernment that our world is [...]
A Slow Motion Train Wreck
We are witnessing something awful and terrible. Our culture is being destroyed. We are just bystanders, there is really nothing we can do. The survivors will need our assistance. So we will wait for the inevitable crash, and our chance to intervene into the melee which will follow. Things have been accelerating. This heightens the tension, [...]
Arriving Safely
Things can get pretty grim just living life. But add a disability, and suddenly it gets worse. A mental illness intensifies life, and the weird concoction of symptoms and hospitals, therapists and medications and family/friends is a bit daunting for anyone. It’s a little bit like running through the wilderness slathered in bacon grease, trying to stay ahead from the [...]