Discipleship
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The Cost of Discipleship (and the blessings)
Jesus knew the cost, and the blessings, to himself and for his disciples. Do we? Do I? “But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.”– The Apostle Paul, Philippians 3:7 “It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.”– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Continue reading
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The Fellowship of His Sufferings
Jesus suffers with the suffering ones, “a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief”. He was wounded for our transgressions and with his stripes we are healed. He is the wounded healer who will for eternity bear the scars of loving us, serving us, “even unto death”. We will know the King in heaven by Continue reading
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The Word of Life
Jesus taught us to pray like this: “Our Father in heaven…Give us this day our daily bread”. Matthew 6:9,11 What food is to the body so is the Word of God to the soul. As often as we must eat our food we must consume the word of God to have His Life in ourselves. Continue reading
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An Old Way For The New Year
So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold the man!”— John 19:5 Perhaps in this transition between the old year and the new, your reevaluations and your dreams have caused you to think about the meaning of things, even the meaning of your life. Let Continue reading
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Life is a Battle and a March
Life is a battle and a march. At times we are able to make camp in peace, then another day begins. Every day brings new challenges, confrontations, and temptations, some within ourselves and some with others, fears within and fighting without. Every day is a challenge to our trust and obedience toward God. Every day Continue reading
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A Video / Psalm 88: The darkest Psalm that brings light to the soul in despair
This is a 37 minute video I recorded on Psalm 88, a reading and commentary, that not only attempts to open up this darkest Psalm, but with some thoughts on the larger volume of Psalms and how to read them with understanding. This is a follow-up video to my confession of mental illness in depression Continue reading
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I Know This
I know the least about what matters most. But I have known enough to want more, to want it always, to live and move and have my being in the presence of God. Immanuel, “God with us”, this is the thing. Nothing matters more and nothing is missed more than the presence of God in Continue reading
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Heart Matters
“What the heart loves, the will chooses and the mind justifies.” ~ Ashley Null, in Thomas Cranmer’s Doctrine of Repentance: Renewing the Power to Love Therefor, we cannot follow the natural heart, but what God has revealed in his word. Since… “The heart is more deceitful than all elseAnd is desperately sick;Who can understand it?“I, Continue reading
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Bonhoeffer: The Image of God is Christ Crucified
The following passage by Dietrich Bonhoeffer is from his book, part of the last chapter, in The Cost of Discipleship. It is the truest and most profound theology, a theology of the cross, the theology of “Christ in us the hope of glory”, a theology of Emmanuel, the incarnate Lord Jesus Christ who is “God Continue reading
About Me
A Christian, thinking, vlogging, and writing online. I live elsewhere as well. I follow the theology of the cross in the faith and practice of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Formerly a pastor in Europe and America, now living semi-retired in Kentucky (U.S.), driving for the Amish and in-home carer.
Crucified Hearts 