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No rights we claim as the people of God
No rights they might claim protect this community of strangers in the world. Nor do they claim any such rights, for they are the meek, who renounce all rights of their own for the sake of Jesus Christ. When they are berated, they are quiet. When violence is done to them, they endure it. When they are cast out, they…
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Lord, deliver me from halfway measures
You call me to unreserved obedience.
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The freedom NOT to worry
Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry.
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It’s not about dumbing down, but anti-intellecutalism
Well, we can call it dumbing down, but it’s more a sense of being anti-elite. Somehow, it’s just not good to be “intellectual” anymore. I make no great claim to it, but I do love to learn. There is THIS READ. After you read that, WATCH THIS. (Warning, some strong language in this one.) Why do we shy away from…
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2016.02.14 – The Great Commission
2016.02.14 – The Great Commission A sermon from Heights Church. More information at HeightsChurchMN.org Subscribe in an RSS reader or on iTunes
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Don’t stay empty
The journey of Lent is one that should be inward. As western Christians, we don’t “do inward” very well. We don’t like silence a lot, either. Protestant emphasis, beginning so nobly in the early Luther, has grown externally rationalistic, humanistic, and service-minded… The dearth of rich Protestant literature on the interior aspect of Christian living, except as it bears on…
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Surrender and love
He plucks the world out of hearts, loosening the chains of attachment. And He hurls the world into our hearts, where we and He together carry it in infinite love. — Thomas R Kelly, A Testament to Devotion
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It is time to PRESS ON!
http://fl.vu/i7R5L
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The desire to desire
I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
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The longing for all things new
Lord, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, Lord. Repeat them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy. (Hab. 3:2) There is a longing in my heart, not for a repeat of some past revival, but a renewed hunger for the presence of God. I can’t start anywhere…
