Category Archives: My Thoughts

I always wondered how we could grow to look like Jesus but still keep our individuality. Character-wise, like Jesus, but . . . see what C.S. Lewis writes at the end of “Problem of Pain.” “What can be more a man’s own than a new name which even in eternity remains a secret between God and him?Continue reading “Individuality”

A great challenge for Christian missions is on the last page of Ignite, A Heart for the Nations. We will go to the hard places and lift Him up.  We will continue to mobilize young and old to fulfill the great commission. We will minister to the nations that God keeps bringing to [us]. We will continue to pray,Continue reading “Missions”

Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering. . . . It is for people whom we care nothing about that we demand happiness on any terms: with our friends, our lovers, our children, we are exacting and would rather see them suffer muchContinue reading “Kindness”

Humility. It is one of God’s most treasured virtues.  And when it comes to the growth of humility, serving is one of the most important training exercises in which we can engage . . .  Jesus calls each of us to this ministry of the towel. It has as much to do with the work heContinue reading “Humility”

Although on some occasions people in the Bible were told not to be afraid, in other instances they were urged not to stop fearing but rather to fear the proper thing.   By Rob Currie in Hungry for More of God