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Living?

To a large degree, we Christians are living like mere mortals…….  In truth, however, we are not mere mortals, but are born from above, and can, at once, answer the invitation to see and enter (living from a perspective of) the eternal kingdom of God.  We can make a clean break with this realm's controlling influence.  This is not complicated.  Help us, Lord.

The spirit of the age is playing the role of guide in this mere-mortal existence.  Following along, we look, smell, and taste like the predominant culture around us, whatever that culture may be; whether Eastern or Western.

Quit yourselves like men, and fight!  (in non-King James version – stand up and fight like never before!)  It is beyond important that this is changed.  We must fight to see it so! Continue reading “Living?”

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Voices from the Past, Still Ringing True

I just finished Oswald Chambers:  Abandoned to God.  I recommend it highly!  Strong book.

I will spare you the book report, but I will say this book is careful to reveal something that I think has not been known broadly, that all Oswald Chambers writings, including My Utmost for His Highest, were written by his wife, and most of them after he was gone.  It is a great story of the way his contribution was maximized by the woman who shared a brief, but meaningful, marriage with him.  He died when he was my age now, 43.Isn't if funny how when you read into the detail of a story that you generally know, the emotion can still come through as if you were hearing it for the first time?  I was caught by this book in that way….  wiping my eyes, and wailing at his passing.  Same thing happened to me with No Compromise: The Life Story of Keith Green Story.   I recommend it too. Continue reading “Voices from the Past, Still Ringing True”

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Getting To Know You

Even if you take the toll highway from Monterrey to Mexico City, which is well-tended, less crowded, and a generally smoother experience, you will still have the chance to pass herds of goats wandering in the slow lane and vehicles in weirdly legal states of decomposition.  To mention this fact isn’t to suggest that Mexico is a primitive or what you’d call a “developing” country, just that the levels of permission here are on an order different than what you are used to in your home country, if your home country is the United States.  If you have need to move your flock of goats along a high-speed roadway, go to it; if you want to assemble the undercarriage and engine of your vehicle in one place and the body and interior in another hundreds of miles away, feel free to improvise a wooden driver’s seat and take off, friend.  We will just keep moving alongside. Continue reading “Getting To Know You”