by Brian | Aug 16, 2019 | Meditations
“Lord, who may abide in Your tabernacle?” asks the writer of Psalm 15, and “Who may dwell in Your holy hill?” The answers are profound. One of them is, “He who speaks truth in his heart.” Speaking truth in your own...
by ccpwebteam | Jun 19, 2019 | Meditations
Here’s D.A. Carson, writing about the incident recorded in Matthew 17, when Jesus told told his followers they had “little faith”… “Probably,” Carson notes, this word “does not refer so much to the littleness of their faith as...
by ccpwebteam | Jun 26, 2018 | God's will, Holy Spirit, Meditations
When God’s Spirit is given a free hand to work in our lives, what might be the result? Where might we go? What might we do? Who can tell? One thing is certain–the Spirit of Life is not limited by genetics, upbringing, circumstances, history, or any of the...
by ccpwebteam | Mar 23, 2018 | Meditations
Here’s some encouraging thoughts from Alec Motyer, commenting on these verses: Nevertheless the gloom will not be upon her who is distressed, As when at first He lightly esteemed The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, And afterward more heavily oppressed...
by ccpwebteam | Dec 22, 2017 | Book Recommendations, Meditations, The Trinity
Here’s Fred Sanders, with a perfect last second gift idea for you. These are at the bookstore…while they last. A friend recently gave me a copy of this new devotional book, Meditations on the Trinity: Beauty, Mystery, and Glory in the Life of God, by A.W....
by ccpwebteam | Dec 12, 2017 | Meditations
Back in August I posted this introduction to the ancient Christian document known as “1 Clement”– Sometime in the last few years of the first century or first few years of the second–in other words, within living memory of the Apostles–the leader of...
