The dignity of our suffering

photo © 2008 Brad Bridgewater | more info (via: Wylio) Everyone has a cross to bear, it is our very dignity, and it is true suffering. It must not be diminished nor taken from us. It reminds me of the priest in The Brothers Karamazov who told the bereaved woman that there would be no […]

Soul Crush

photo © 2009 aeneastudio | more info (via: Wylio) Well, I confess, officially we are supposed to move on to the next letter of the Hebrew alphabet, but I’m doing a second verse in Gimel, because it is so good that I can’t stand the thought of skipping over it. I hope you love this […]

THY law

  SCRIPTURE Ps 119:18 Open my eyes, that I may behold Wonderful things from Thy law. PRAYER Father, yesterday was a wonderful study, I don’t think I can expect a study to come together that miraculously every day. But You are God, and everything You do is a miracle! Teach us Lord, change us, forgive […]

Christian Leadership

Where we used to live, there was a sheep farmer down the road who needed some extra pasture for his 120 sheep to graze. We set a morning to help him herd his sheep up the road to our pasture. The image above is a photo from that actual morning. What an experience! He had […]

Silence – Shusaku Endo

photo © 2010 Axel Hartmann | more info (via: Wylio)   I just finished reading Silence, a novel by Shusaku Endo. It is the story of a Portugese Catholic priest who went to Japan in the 1500’s to inquire of a priest who had been his mentor and had apparently apostatized there. Beautiful, haunting, deep, […]

Wonderful Things

photo © 2010 Smithsonian Institution | more info (via: Wylio)   SCRIPTURE Ps 119:18 Open my eyes, that I may behold Wonderful things from Thy law. PRAYER Father, we are wandering dumb sheep. Lead us to Your door, feed us and teach us. Forgive us and guide us to the truth. Protect us from temptation […]

Behold – not to understand, but to regard

photo © 2006 Robert Scarth | more info (via: Wylio)   SCRIPTURE Ps 119:18 Open my eyes, that I may behold Wonderful things from Thy law. PRAYER Father, it is not we who are constant and faithful, it is You! Your word stands forever as the touchstone of truth, character, history, and majesty. Teach us […]

Open MY Eyes

photo © 2009 Deep | more info (via: Wylio)   Discipline is doing things toward a good and desirable end, that seem difficult for the moment. Sometimes studying the scriptures is more discipline and less rapturous revelation. Today, however, is different. SCRIPTURE Ps 119:18 Open my eyes, that I may behold Wonderful things from Thy […]

The substance of moral fiber

photo © 2009 Giuseppe | more info (via: Wylio)   I was in a great conversation with a friend the other night, and we talked a bit about the true substance of moral fiber. He suggests that the real substance is when there is something that is right, that you absolutely do NOT want to […]

Open My Eyes!

photo © 2007 Thomas Huxley | more info (via: Wylio)   We’re moving forward into the next section, Ps 119:17-24. There is a lot of great scripture in here, but I’m settling on v. 18, one of my all time favorite verses. SCRIPTURE Ps 119:18 Open my eyes, that I may behold Wonderful things from […]