“… encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of the God who calls you into his kingdom and glory.” — 1 Thessalonians 2:12

Comfort – “to soothe in time of affliction or distress” (American Heritage College Dictionary)

Comfort – “to call to one’s side”, “to calm, console” … Continue reading

What keeps you living a real life? Dallas Willard helps make the connection between reality and “unreality.” Life lived apart from the Spirit is not reality. God intended us to live a “whole” life – physically and spiritually connected to him. Such an experience only happens in the Kingdom … Continue reading

A friend posted an essay titled, “In Distrust of Movements.” The following quote set the premise for the piece,

“The movements which deal with single issues or single solutions are bound to fail because they cannot control effects while leaving causes in place.” (from Wendell Berry’s article in Resurgence… Continue reading

We hear a lot about evil in our world. How would you define evil? an interesting clip from a greek word study book gives the following,

From the evil one (apo tou ponrou). The ablative case in the Greek obscures the gender. We have no way of knowing whether … Continue reading