Throughout Christ’s ministry when He walked this earth, people followed him from afar, watching, curious about this man and His ministry. And all around us, people are watching us from afar, curious about our faith and how it plays out in life.
Will our conduct disgust them and drive them away?
Or will it compel them to [...]
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honest doubt
Posted in Faith, Good Stuff, Quotes on Mar 10th, 2010
“Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds,
At last he beat his music out.
There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.
He fought his doubt and gather’d strength,
He would not make his judgment blind,
He faced the spectres of the mind
And laid them; thus he came at length
To find [...]
…is not adhering to a set of beliefs or a creed, and then getting others to do the same.
It is, at its core, following Jesus Christ and being reconciled to God through Him and inviting others to join us.
“All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of [...]
One of the things that we emphasize at Providence is the fact that our Sunday worship service is just one aspect of what we believe God is calling us to as we follow Him. We are a visible expression of the local body of Christ. And some of Jesus’ final words to His disciples were, [...]
believe
Posted in Faith, Good Stuff, Quotes on Feb 7th, 2010
This afternoon, we had a combined service at a nearby church. We sang some songs of worship and praise. And then we had an open mic for people to share what Christ is doing in their lives. These types of unscripted testimonies are some of my favorite things about following Christ.
One gentleman stood up. It was [...]
The Spirit of the living God
Is like the current of a stream,
Transporting us within its banks,
Sometimes raging, sometimes serene.
His leading and guiding hand
Can at times feel out of control;
Yet we know He is moving us
To a place that is best for our soul.
Sometimes He conducts us to a pool
Where trees overhead provide shade,
And the calm [...]
Yesterday at lunch, one of the missionaries I work with read Daniel 3. I heard something in verses 17 and 18 that I had never thought of before.
If this be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, [...]
The rhythm and cadence of life,
Marked by joy and sorrow and strife,
Urges me to join in its dance,
By its subtle, hypnotic trance.
Yet faintly, beneath it all,
I hear the Creator’s gentle call,
Unhurried by the rising noise,
Manifest by peace and poise,
Compelling me to quiet my spirit,
Just long enough so I can hear it,
Calling me away to that [...]
So this morning I woke up and decided I needed to get out of the house to go for a walk. I drove to the Struble Trail. On the way there I heard on the radio that it was 16 degrees…pretty chilly. I walked for awhile, meeting up with an older gentleman and his yellow [...]
On the evening of October 30th, 2009, we were about 6 weeks into our second pregnancy. We had been trying for about a year and a half to get pregnant since we lost our first baby at 10 weeks to a miscarriage on Father’s Day, 2008. So we were very thrilled, but also cautious and nervous.
On [...]
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