I am not related to Jim Elliot…(I wish I was) and why Jesus probably doesn’t want you in yet another Bible Study

Hear me out…. I just got done reading the story of Jim Elliot, I found these two great quotes while reading his biography called “Shadow of the Almighty.” Those whimpering Stateside young people will wake up on the Day of Judgment condemned to worse fates than these demon-fearing Indians, because, having a Bible, they were [...]

Obama’s Acceptance Speech….30,000 New Tropops…And a Nobel Peace Prize

Well, today I heard President Obama’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace prize.   First off does anyone see the irony of anyone receiving the Nobel Peace Prize who just deployed 30,000 troops. I think I remember a guy named Caesar who proclaimed Peace through Victory….Humm….History does repeat itself doesn’t it. Second, I really want [...]

Cheap Grace vs Costly Grace…

I am reading a book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer called Cost of Discipleship. This book starts out talking about Cheap Grace and I have always though what he said but I had to share it with you.     What is Cheap Grace? Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the [...]

Laura the next Robert Frost…

This is from a young lady I had the pleasure of baptizing. She said this great poem right before she was baptized. It was so beautiful, I had to ask her if I could share it.   “I was tired of being thirsty staring down a darkened well, but then one day you quenched my [...]

Amena Brown, Resurrection

Happy Holy Week

Came across a great quote

“If we say we love God, and yet celebrate the destruction of another nation through an act of war—then we’re hypocrites and we do not know the God we say we love. (Just as an aside here—because I don’t want to be misunderstood. I believe our government is acting responsibly in it’s attacks on the [...]

John Wesley Quoutable Quotes…

I am reading a John Westly book called Holy Spirit and Power, he was quite a guy here are some quotes… “My only hope is that if I seek Jesus, I shall find Christ. Then, I shall be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own, based on law, but that which through [...]

a Shane Claiborne quote from Rich Mullins… and other quotes from Rich Mullins

“You guys are all into that born again thing, which is great. We do need to be born again, since Jesus said that to a guy named Nicodemus. But if you tell me I have to be born again to enter the kingdom of God, I can tell you that you just have to sell [...]

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