My own understanding of Christ will NEVER be YOUR standard for salvation!
(Just something that God put on my heart to write, at this very early morning hour.)...
And I'm thankful for it, too…
A contemplation upon Christian license and liberty
There are orders of magnitude difference between a thing being unscriptural and that thing being ANTI-scriptural....
A theological thought or two this evening
God is not a bureaucrat.
Salvation does not derive from procedure....
An encouragement for those who might need it…
God never writes a “perfect” ending to our story… but He is capable and ready to write each of us a happy ending!...
"The thing works!" On the church and history
The other week was Pentecost: the day that Christians remember as the start of the church as Christ’s kingdom of emissaries in this temporal realm and age. It is the Sunday that many churches take to honor the coming of the Holy Spirit onto the followers of Jesus, as recorded in Acts, chapter 2.
I spent this year’s Pentecost visiting with a friend, at a United Methodist congregation. It was also the final Sunday that the minister of this particular assembly would have with the people that he had served for many years. Per a tradition that hearkens back to the days of the circuit riders, United Methodist ministers will be at one church for a few years before being assigned to another, at which time the congregation will receive a new minister who will serve them until the next time that the conference gets to the task of re-assignment....
A thought this Wednesday morning…
Christianity should never be about making other people “just like me”.
Christianity is best when it is a bold demonstration to others why they shouldn’t be like me at all!...
A ponderance upon wisdom…
Knowledge to do a thing is good. Wisdom to not do a thing is often far better....
Something that can’t be said nearly enough
Hey.
I just want to say, to The Knight Shift’s faithful readers and to those who are fortunate(?) to find this blog…
Don’t ever stop being thankful for the people that God has put into your life.
And I know that I have said much the same before. But, I wouldn’t be led to say it again, if I didn’t have to be especially appreciative of that lately.
This week my family went through one ordeal after another. Later today is the funeral for one member who I loved and cherished very dearly. Several days earlier, we almost lost another.
None of us are guaranteed next year, next month, heck not even the next day. Today is the present and that is exactly what it is: a present, a gift from God! And it is one that is priceless beyond all measure. Every moment, every iota of it is ...
On God and one’s life…
God can do many things with your life… but what He CAN’T do is make a boring story out of it!
(Very special thanks to good friend Kristen, who in more ways than one God used to lead me to that contemplation this week š...
When I want more than a wink from God…
For most of the past several months, going back to late summer, I have been… well, pick your terminology: “led to”, “compelled to”, “reduced to”, what have you… crying out to God. Crying metaphorically and quite literally and very tearfully.
I am finally beginning to appreciate that in spite of lamenting His absence so many times, that He has been there all along. And that He has been faithful, even when my own faith has faltered all too often.
And now, I can put it no more clear than this: I can see at last that God has been “winking” at me.
He has let me know that He has heard me. That He knows what I am going through. That He has grieved alongside me, about all the things that I have hurt over.
So, I can’t but be thankful that in so many, mostly little ways, that He ...