Tag Archives: obedience

We’ve all felt its effects: dry mouth, racing heart, stomach upset, and irritability. These are the symptoms of worry. In its deception, worry leads its victims down a path to nowhere–rolling the same concern over in the mind obsessively with no answer in sight. J. Arthur Rank knew the effects ...

The stranger listens as those around him talk, sharing their experiences. Standing at a distance, he observes their behaviors and watches as their choices play out in their lives. The pilgrim is on a journey called life—in a foreign land where he will never fully belong.  He looks forward to ...

Do you have lingering thoughts of escapism in these uncertain days? Maybe you wish you could pack up and move to a rural cabin hidden in the hills of nowhere. Perhaps you wish you could escape to a different time, such as bygone days when terrorism and shootings and perversion ...

“Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and ...

But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that ...