“Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock. Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won’t collapse because it is built on bedrock. But anyone who hears my teaching and doesn’t obey […]
Tag: Faith
Shadow of the Prophets
Ever think, ‘how cool would it be’, to have the prophetic accuracy of Isaiah? To have seen and told of the coming Messiah – His birth, His life, His death. And, be read, studied, memorized by people for thousands of years. Some 500 years before Jesus’ birth, Isaiah declared the virgin would be with child. […]
A River Runs Though It
(Norman Maclean, 1976) This is one of my all-time favorite books (and movie). I first came across it in one of my family therapy classes & have read the book and watched the movie several times. The story revolves around two brothers, their parents, and the choices they make, leading them down very different paths, […]
The Prince of Paradox
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.“ During this time of enforced self-isolation, searching my bookshelves to find one of my books, bought and as yet unread, relegated to dusty shelves, I ran across a book subtitled, “Four Who Wrote in […]
