Author: Cheryl Siemens
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Into the Bottom of the Sea -Teresa of Avila
Once my understanding was let down into the bottom of the sea. And there I saw green hills and valleys with appearance of moss strewn with seaweed and gravel. Then I understood in this way that if a person were there under the wide waters, if he could see God, as God is continually with…
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Belief that is Profession not Life
faith exceeds scribes and pharisees vain belief. 1 Corinthians 15:2
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Community
The individual will taken in the Nietzschien sense always abandons community. “History is always communual, and community is always historical.” “See and when you find an absence of community, you will find a broken history.” -Dallas Willard, Veritas Forum, Why Science and Religion Must Conflict
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The Kingdom of God (John Bright)
Page 95 “We shall have peace only when men surrender their tools, their minds, and their wills to the Kingdom of God: “Thy will, not mine, be done.”” Page 96 In History, “It certainly seems, the incurable sickness of the world is due, more than to any economic cause, to the total corporate failure of…
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Renewing the Christian Mind Scriptures Referenced.
Old testament Genesis 1:26 Responsibility with God. To Rule for Good. This is what the outcome of Discipleship is Chapter 20 Your Place in this world. Then God said let us make humankind after our likeness, so that they may have say over the fish, the birds, the cattle and all the earth, and all…
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My Mind Is So Small
We do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs to deep for words. Romans 8:26 When I do not know what I want, when I don’t have the capacity to know what is good for me or my neighbour. When I don’t know what to ask God…
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To See Jesus.
To see Jesus. In the conversation with a neighbour. Picking up coffee. In the unexpected challenge. Alone. In the midst. When everyone is more intelligent. And I’m not much. And when everyone applauds. On top of the world. To see Jesus.
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Fanny Crosby, Holiness
Page 186-187, Biography by Bernard Ruffin As we have seen, the typical nineteenth-century preacher chided, scolded and threatened, while Fanny, assuming that her audience knew that they were sinners, offered a message of comfort and encouragement. …as a person she possessed an irresistible charm and an indisputable holiness Soul Shepherding, Dallas Willard Definitions, Holiness is…
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Definitions
Freedom The capacity to do what is best (Dallas Willard-Human Beings as Spiritual Beings, Conversatio Divina 13:12)
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On Creation
Published in the MB Herald, On The Legacy of Charles Darwin, April 1, 2009, Glen R. Klassen. When I do science as a Christian, I do exactly the same experiments that would be done by non-theistic scientists. But while they may believe that the laws of nature are godless, impersonal and automatic governors of nature,…