
Shrinking from Christ’s Coming
In praying for God’s kingdom to come, we face our fear of judgment and anticipate the mercy God gives so abundantly.
In praying for God’s kingdom to come, we face our fear of judgment and anticipate the mercy God gives so abundantly.
From the disciples’ experience of Pentecost we can learn to “profit by what every day and hour teaches us, as it flies.”
No bad news can ruin us more than the Good News can save us.
We must have an active faith that can see through – not over, or around or in spite of our difficulties – to our final home.
Knowing the difference between forgiveness and pardon will give us even greater resolve to change and atone for past sins.
God requires much from us; don’t shrink back, but go on with the courage of one who knows “If God be for me, who can be against me?”
The world God made has a natural law of cause and effect built into it. One act of love really benefits the whole of creation, and one sin harms the same whole. On the individual level, our personal sins, as well as our acts of love, mold our character moment by moment.
“In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.”