Benjamin Franklin once quipped, ““If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.”
Simply go out as a laborer with God and see what He does through your life. Simply follow Christ and keep witnessing.
We may not be wandering in the Sinai wilderness, but our own death and mortality are still worthy of consideration.
While all this is happening to us, our Lord appears to be utterly unconcerned about us. That is where the real trial of faith comes in.
The kingdom of heaven is ‘suffering violence,’ and I hope that you are part of the reason.
Christian: remember that this is not your home. The world is terrified by news of disasters, because their only homeland is being disturbed. But this world is not your home.
One great difference between Christianity and secularism is that secularism is always talking about generalities, and the individual is forgotten. Christianity realizes that the mass, the nation, is nothing after all but a collection of individuals.
“How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have.” So mused Soren Kierkegard, Danish philosopher of the nineteenth century, and his observation stands true today.
We hear constantly about ‘privilege,’ and the need to ‘repent’ of that privilege. So just what exactly is ‘privilege’? Does it even exist? And how should we respond to our privilege?
What sacred myst’ries lie within our view,And what unspoken wonders still accrue: Though heedless souls still hurry in their tracks,Distracted, thoughtless, toward the De’ty’s acts; But those more pond’rous, who can bear the weightTo think of mysteries, and to meditate,…
