“To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless. 12 We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; 13 when we are slandered, we answer kindly. We have become the scum of the earth,Continue reading “We’re Pretty Much Scum”
Category Archives: presence of God
Defining Depression
Evil has completely saturated the world of human beings. We are being drenched with a thousand variations of sin and rebellion. In olden times, an enemy would surround a city, and essentially let the inhabitants starve until they would surrender. I wonder at times, if this tactic is not working in us today, on some kindContinue reading “Defining Depression”
Like Stars, Forever
“The wise people will shine like the brightness of the sky. Those who teach others to live right will shine like stars forever and ever.” Daniel 12:3, NCV “So our faces are not covered. They show the bright glory of the Lord, as the Lord’s Spirit makes us more and more like our glorious Lord.”Continue reading “Like Stars, Forever”
To Pray without Ceasing
Brother Lawrence once wrote: “There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God.” That’s easy for a monk to say. What did Brother Lawrence have to do all day but be in “continual conversation with God.” But how does one do thatContinue reading “To Pray without Ceasing”
Broken Believers 