Even though a person may preach spiritual truths to a crowd, the message is usually for the person preaching it. If you feel like God has put a message in your heart to share, you are the primary intended recipient of that message. If it’s really burning in your heart, that may be a sign … Continue reading Deferring Hope and Faith
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Manifest Forgiveness
This post is a follow up to Effective Humility I think there is a time and a place where spiritual conviction just totally wipes a person out and they fall on their face before God. However, as I've been on my spiritual walk, I have found a different death to self needed, which is a death … Continue reading Manifest Forgiveness
Pilgrimage and Horizons of Self
It is profound to me that the Bible tends to reflect back to a person 1.) who they are, and 2.) what they are looking for. It could be argued that this is purely a natural psychological phenomenon, but what if instead of being merely natural, the occurrence of this phenomenon was providential? What a … Continue reading Pilgrimage and Horizons of Self
Adam and Eve and sin
Man sinned and nothing has been the same since, we all know the basic story. Personally, though, I think the classic images of Adam, Eve, and a fruit tree don’t do the story justice. For one thing, I think that the phrase, “the knowledge of good and evil” has generally been hollowed of meaning and … Continue reading Adam and Eve and sin
Identity
The thing about doing new things and working really hard to be something more, to learn and improve, especially outside of your comfort zone, is that you spontaneously and organically find out more and more of who you were made to be. It is like the truth that, no matter where you go, God will … Continue reading Identity
Andrew K. Banks 