RSS FeedTHE PENTECOSTAL POWER OF TRUTH AND LOVE
At his Ascension Jesus promised the disciples that “you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses… to the end of the earth (Acts 1:8). When the day of Pentecost arrived a mighty rushing wind and tongues of fire rested on...
EVERYTHING HAS ITS PRICE
Everything has its price. If you want to go along with the temptations of the world, the flesh and the devil, you have to accept the consequences – a life on the dark side, opposed to the light and love of God with all the sickness that entails. If you want to live in...
IT IS NOT ABOUT ME
Forty days after the Resurrection Jesus was taken up into heaven. From the earliest beginnings of the Christian church the Ascension of Jesus is counted among the primary facts of faith. It signifies many things about Jesus: his return to the Father, his reigning at...
THE DANGERS OF UNBELIEF
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) wrote a fantastic satire about life in the Soviet Union that was never able to be published in his lifetime. THE MASTER AND MARGARITA was finally published in 1966 and the 150,000 copies were sold out within hours. Daniel Radcliffe, who...
THE BATTLE FOR THE MIND
William Sargant was a British psychiatrist who, in 1957, published one of the first books on the psychology of brainwashing, Battle for the Mind. He was heavily involved with the Intelligence Services, including the CIA Project MKULTRA. His work became termed ‘The...
MANAGING PAIN AND DISABILITY
In 1984 Reynolds Price, professor of English at Duke University, began a four year battle with spinal cancer. After surgery to remove the tumor, and a series of radiation treatments, he was left with searing pain and lost the use of his legs. For four years he...
LIFE IS NOT A PRISON
Chuck Colson tells about celebrating Easter Sunday in Delaware in 2000. It was a cold, windy morning, more like winter than the beginning of spring. We arrived at the Sussex Correctional Institution just as the day’s first light was filtering through the morning...
FAILURE IS NOT FINAL
Dr Armand Nicholi, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School writes that, “What often appears to be the cause of despondency in many today is an awareness of the gap between what they think they ought to be and what they feel they are. That is, there is a...
A MORNING PRAYER
Recently I have been using the Private Devotions of Lancelot Andrewes in my morning prayers. Andrewes was born in 1555 and died in 1626. His ministry encompassed being Chaplain to Queen Elizabeth I and Privy Councillor to King James 1. He was on the committee that...
A MODERN IMITATION OF CHRIST
Every Lent I set myself the discipline of reading some meaty spiritual classic. This year I decided to read LOOKING FORWARD 2: Every Next Moment, The Meaning of the Cross, by a longtime friend, Harald K. Haugan, affectionately known as “Whitey”, by his shock of...
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