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Slaying Dragons

“But go and learn what this means, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”  Matthew 9:13

Several years ago, two Bible college students; Mike Yankoski and Sam Purvis sought to put their faith in Christ to the test by living on the streets as homeless people in 5 major cities in the United States.  For Mike needed to know if his faith in God was real; if he could actually be the Christian, he said he was, apart from the comforts he’d always known. So, with only a bag on his back, a guitar in his hand, and Sam by his side, he set out.

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Pervasive Evil

“Abortion concerns not just the unborn child, it concerns every one of us.  The English poet, John Donne, wrote: ‘any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.’  We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life—the unborn—without diminishing the value of all human life.”  — President Ronald Reagan, Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation

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The Strength of Weakness

“In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance, My head is bloody but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears; Looms but the Horror of the shade. And yet the menace of the years, Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.” – William Ernest Henley 

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The Weight of the Beam

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.” — G.K. Chesterton

If you’ve been a Christian for any length of time, you’ve probably already figured out that the words of Jesus in reference to discipleship are not at all comfortable; they were not given to pacify our flesh with the “spiritual” therapeutic massage of worldly wit and conventional wisdom.

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