This post comes from Calvary Chapel Pastors I’ll admit that I have pet peeves. One is a style of “discussion” that is much like bullying—all talk and no listen. Another is what I call, “I think; therefore, I’m right.” (I may have “borrowed” this, but can’t remember from where.) The two seem to go hand...
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Jesus Never Fails
This post comes from Calvary Chapel Pastors One day Paul and his ministry buddy, Silas, got thrown into a filthy prison for freeing a slave girl from demon possession. The local magistrates ordered them beaten and placed in stocks in the inner dungeon, a place full of rats, disease, and all kinds of filth. Nobody...
His Agony and Our Access
This post comes from My Utmost For His Highest Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the disciples . . . . ’Stay here and watch with Me’ —Matthew 26:36, 38 We can never fully comprehend Christ’s agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, but at least we don’t have to...
The Way to Permanent Faith
This post comes from My Utmost For His Highest Indeed the hour is coming . . . that you will be scattered . . . —John 16:32 Jesus was not rebuking the disciples in this passage. Their faith was real, but it was disordered and unfocused, and was not at work in … continue reading...