“making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;” Proverbs 2:2
by J. Heinrich Arnold Life needs a center, a core, an axis to revolve around and anchor our physical and philosophical existence. Whether we like it or not, we all center our lives around something – it might be family, career, money, or sex, or ego, or an addiction. There is some element that will …
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By Eric Boerhout (Sverigebönen 24/7) Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. Matthew 5:15 For the past 3 years my family and friends have organised a Christmas celebration for the people in our little …
By Doug Hershey “No site in Jerusalem affected me more than the western wall.” – Edward Wilmot Blyden (1866, African American Author; – From West Africa to Palestine; 245) The Western Wall, sometimes called “The Wailing Wall”, is known throughout the world as a Jewish place of prayer. Jews have been praying here for centuries, …
By Ron McGatlin Families are beginning to be drawn to come together and be brought back into God’s true order as the basic model for all governance and production in the kingdom of God. Adversity and lack of wellbeing are negative factors that are being used as a trigger toward changing the hearts of many …
By Jared C. Wilson "If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother." -- Matthew 18:15 It's impossible to get through mature adult life without navigating personal oversights and offenses. No normal person enjoys conflict, and every normal person wishes they could avoid …
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For the past days a wonderful, refreshing, pure sound is filling our house as I "bumped into it" unexpected and surprisingly.To be honest, you need it "every now and then", the fresh new inspiration by the frequency of sounds that are charged by presence, longing, beauty and purity.... mainly when the familiar (beautiful but still …
“We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.”Dallas Willard The world has made an idol of reason, polishing it with perpetual questioning. This has got …
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From the heart of a father 