The phrase “leanness into their soul” stood out to me because it seems an appropriate description of the society I see around me. In America, we have prosperity and less leisure time with which to enjoy it. We have channels with less worth watching. We have methods of communication and seemingly less to say.
Love and the Cross
10s “Only for Christ has the power to incapacitate the sturdy for self that is the bane of every sinner, and only the grace of Christ has the power to produce that ” – Paul David Tripp Tripp goes on to […]
Foolish and slow of heart
Perhaps my reader cannot relate to this, but I often feel that I am foolish and slow of heart to believe. In fact, I know that I am. those travelers to Emmaus, I can feel that God’s plan has been derailed and I can often think that I am the villain that derailed it. It is sometimes difficult to lo past my failures to see God.
John Stott on Jesus’ Hour
Jesus referred to an “hour” that was coming in his life and ministry. John Stott writes about what Jesus meant by this.