Character
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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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Perfection: What did Jesus mean when He commanded us to be “perfect”?
We know from the context of this passage that Jesus was speaking of the perfection of love in the character, such a love that embraces even one’s enemies, just as God does with us. Such is what it means to be like our heavenly Father, who so loved the world that he gave his only Continue reading
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The Big Truth About Little Things
“He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much; and he who is unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous also in much.— Luke 16:10 I came across the following passage during my devotional time today. It is especially meaningful to me because it takes me into repentance. So Continue reading
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God’s Way With Us In Trial and Difficulties
What often feels so hard for us, what seems to be failure and defeat, may well be God working in ways we have not yet comprehended. What follows is some instruction from the 19th century writer, Ellen White, on how God works with us, in us, and through us for the development of our character 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.
