-
The Undriven Life—The Christian Difference, Part 3 by Carolyn Cote
The impromptu speech I gave that day was thought-provoking but not genius. Abortion became legal by a Supreme Court ruling on January 22, 1973. Average Americans were stunned and Catholics led the protests. They helped expose the truth of what abortion truly meant: innocent babies being killed with saline or dismembered in their mother’s wombs. Making abortion illegal again appeared straightforward—show America what abortion really was and they would never support it. In some cases, this informative approach worked but before long, clinics opened nation-wide and were performing an average of 4000 abortions a day. Still, the information campaign continued. The pro-abortion folks rebuffed every exposing truth: it’s not…
-
Social Justice Burnout
In 1986 I was 26 and very busy serving the needs of the teen moms in our rural county. This younger me, the one sure of the answers, the one full of confidence and the one who possessed a small bit of talent had founded Bethesda Pregnancy Services and I was proud–of myself. My calling, as I called it, had begun much earlier when I gave my first ever impromptu speech as a high school freshman. My impromptu subject? Abortion. I had just five minutes to prepare but I knew exactly what I would say because I’d been pondering the abortion debate from a young person’s perspective. I mounted the…
-
Another “Truth” Unlearned
“God will never give you more than you He can handle.” Unlearned the hard way, Binsey, Tree Thoughts Adminstrator Please follow and like us:
-
When God Unbuilds You
I feel your bad time. I’ve been there. The there that feels ragged and gut wrenching. You feel at times like your life is over. You need comfort. May I offer some? You can only lose that which wasn’t eternal. Seems harsh, right? Seems like you will forever have to live in a world undone, washed away, blown away, stolen. What is left? When all is taken down is there anything left? Yes! Your foundation which is Christ. He is enough. Trust this for now. He IS enough. And when He becomes enough you will find He is rebuilding a new structure, a glorious one; one you never dreamed you…
-
You were changed in Him!
“Brothers in the context of our inclusion in Christ, we are blameless; we participate in this heavenly identity. We have become fully acquainted with Christ Jesus as the Ambassador and Chief Priest of our confession. Our lives co-echo the logic of God’s eternal conversation in him.” Heb. 3:1(Mirror Word, trans.) This life seems to move and radiate with such shifts, sometimes they seem to contain such ecstasy and at other moments such devastation. As a people of experience, we sometimes think and begin to believe all these moments added together define our person. Yet, in the midst of it all there is a whisper. There is a voice, an echo,…
-
Being and Doing, Major W. Ian Thomas
BEING AND DOING Major W. Ian Thomas This is a divine vocation into which you have been redeemed, as “His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God hath before ordained that you should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10) can only be fulfilled in the energy and power of the One who indwells you now by His Spirit, as He walked once only in the energy and power of the Father who indwelt Him through the Spirit. Of Himself He said, “I can of mine own self do nothing” (John 5:19), and of you He says, in John 15:5, “Without me you can do nothing.” How much can…
-
Christ Is Sabbath Rest: Gleaning
It is finished. The work begun after Eden is done. Believe. Come to the field. Come glean the fruits of Christ’s labor. Walk the field He purchased and glean all your spirit needs. Sabbath rest is here. Now. For you. “So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His.” Hebrews 4:9-10 NASB Please follow and like us:
