Just watched a fascinating PBS documentary about Bhutan, the little nation under Tibet, in the Himalaya Mountains. "Globalization and modernization are gradually opening Bhutan to the outside world, but it remains one of the smallest and least...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Everyone wants to be an apostle. But no one that I know wants to live the life of an apostle or speak the exact words that the apostles spoke. "Apostle" today is equivalent to "master", whereas the true apostles considered themselves servants. And...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Emotion, that is, how I "feel" from moment to moment, is not a good guide for where a life should go. Take the disciples. They truly loved Jesus, or so it seemed. They certainly "felt good" about Him. They listened to His Words, experienced His...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
What a way to live. Even when he was not in jail, the Holy Spirit would tell the apostle Paul in every city: chains and trouble are coming. He could truly say ‘remember the prisoners as though bound with them' for he was bound in the spirit,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Self-preservation is the natural way. But when Christ does His work in the human heart, self-preservation gives way to the desire for crucifixion with Him. The call is to lose our life in Him. The disciples of Jesus who surrounded Him in His stay...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
It's been in the Scriptures all along. The invitation to come die with and for Jesus. I shall not try to explain it away. We must not only "hate" the world around us, but our own life too. "Greater love has no man than this, that he lay down his...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
