“Anybody can do their best, but we are helped by the Spirit of God to do better than our best.” — Catherine Booth I’ve really struggled with the line above because I’m not sure what my best looks like. Don’t ask me to remember the last time I allowed myself to call something the … Read more
“Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.” –Romans 15:7, The New International Version I came across the verse above in one of my devotions this morning. The most challenging word in there? Accept. What? Who? Why? Being a curious soul, first I thought that I would … Read more
“We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the twentieth century does not reckon with. But we are “harmless,” and therefore unharmed. We are spiritual pacifists, non-militants, conscientious objectors in this battle-to-the death with principalities and powers in high places. Meekness must be had for contract with men, but … Read more
“If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.” -Will Cuppy, journalist (1884-1949) Double standards? Certainly there are the world’s standards and those of God and thankfully they are quite different. But when I sit and watch my neighbor, my brother, … Read more