Part of a letter sent to an unbelieving friend November 2000
…..I had a fascinating insight several weeks ago on the evening of our loss to Oklahoma, that revealed much about me, and much about our weak and beggarly human condition.
The greatest gift God can give us is Himself, and if it will cost us dearly to gain Him, though it be severe, it is still a mercy,
What sort of faith is it that is not radical in its devotion?
Yesterday morning I was out in the woodshed preparing the winter wood stores and made a mistake which resulted in the miter saw’s blade catching my
O the power of sin to keep dark the human heart, but how much greater the power of the Spirit to enter such a heart and give it life.
1. Our prayers can go where we cannot, therefore let us pray fervently and hopefully and unceasingly.
As Christians, there must be an obviousness to our ownership. If people must look at us long and hard and patiently to see who our Lord is, this is a problem not with our Lord, but with us.
Jesus, forgive us our coasting and rivet our gaze upon You.
Fall 2001
On the way back to National Car Rental in St. Louis I passed by a cemetary, full of dead men’s bones,
Martin Luther’s first section of his 95 Theses states, “When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, said, ‘Repent,’ He called for the entire life of believers to be one of penitence.”
We cannot savor the goodness, the supremacy of God unless we recognize and experience our own desperate spiritual poverty.