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“And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. He said to them, ‘It is written, “My house shall be called a house of prayer,” but you make it a den of robbers.’”...
“I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit— that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh...
But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said to him, “Teacher, this woman...
“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who...
The Gift of Stubbornness
The call that I received thirty years ago, a call to which I did not know how to respond, or to which
I found myself unable to respond fully. There were too many obstacles in me, too many infected wounds,
still waiting for the healing that had to come through the...
"Then I heard another voice from heaven saying,
“'Come out of her, my people,
lest you take part in her sins,
lest you share in her plagues;
for her sins are heaped high as heaven,
and God has remembered her iniquities.'”
Revelation 18:4-5 ESV
Video Talk
July 1, 2020
On March 21, 2020, I did my first video talk (devotion). Public speaking is not my forte, but the Lord was encouraging me to do this. So, what I did is I just talked about what the Lord was putting on my heart, about what was going on in our world at that time. And then I read a Scripture, and...
“Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that...
The Monastic Struggle
'Man's anger does not bring about the righteousness of God' (Jms. 1:20
(Chapter talk)
We must, with God's help, eradicate the deadly poison of the demon of anger from the depths of our souls.
So long as he dwells in our hearts and blinds the eyes of the heart with his...
“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and...
“I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome. For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the...
“Hear a just cause, O Lord; attend to my cry!
Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit!
From your presence let my vindication come!
Let your eyes behold the right!
You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night,
you have tested me, and you will find nothing;
I have...
Every moment of my being
is now pegged into Your eternity:
meaningful, enduring, grafted into Your legacy.
Mine is Yours, Yours is mine,
this life continual in the Vine.
Our years add up, the sum
dwarfed by Salvation history
rushing toward the Throne,
where the heavenly clock chimes
with the...
“My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.” (James 5:19-20 ESV)
“Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you...
(after reading about Saul's "Damascus Road" humbling--and his subsequent healing and conversion in Acts 9:1-19)
What ran through Saul's mind as he lie, in a Damascus house, recovering from having crumpled to the ground and been rendered blind by Divine light? Surely one whose life centered on...
So where is our hope?
You do not comprehend pain. You do not comprehend that through the love of God you need to accept pain and endure it. Every human being will experience it to a lesser or greater measure. But with peace in the soul and in a state of grace, hope exists: this is My Son, God...
“Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last...