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The drunk’s concern ain’t that he’s going to die from drinking — which he is — but that he’s going to run out of whiskey before he gets a chance to do it.
If you were to give a drunk and drink and tell him he didn’t really want it, you’d be right in saying [...]

This quote from C.S. Lewis has been making me think lately. It deserves it’s own post.
I wonder if people who ask for God’s direct intervention into our daily lives fully comprehend what they are asking for. When that happens, it is the end of the world. When the author walks onto the stage, the play [...]

Re-Learning My Relationship With God

The closest analogy of “progress” with my relationship with God would be that as a man climbing a ladder to a roof of a house. Every day that would pass where I wouldn’t lose my temper or didn’t indulge my mind in lustful thoughts would be the equivalent of moving up [...]

Teach me, O God, so to use all the circumstances of my life today that they may bring forth in me the fruits of holiness rather than the fruits of sin. Let me use disappointment and material for patience. Let me use success as material for thankfulness. let me use trouble as material for perseverance. [...]

“The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.”