Scorning Democracy
When I was a kid, and a bunch of us wanted to get together to play football, usually there was no shortage of pigskins from which to choose. We all had footballs and, at certain times of the year, tended to carry them around with us much of the time. But you didn’t ever want […]
Better Things
Things pertaining to salvation (5)
Hang Your Day on Prayer
Spiritual Discipline/Prayer Do not practice long-drawn-out devotions, but rather give yourself to prayer at intervals, as you would to food. – Comghall, Rule (Irish, 6th century) Seven times a day I praise you for your righteous rules. – Psalm 119.164 We are mistaken if we believe that the few minutes we spend in […]
Psalm 65:9-13
Psalm 65:9-13 You visit the earth and water it; you greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; you provide their grain, for so you have prepared it. You water its furrows abundantly, settling its ridges, softening it with showers, and blessing its growth. You crown the year with your bounty; your […]
Controlling Desire
Controlling Desire–How, then, can we control our desires? The tenth commandment Exodus 20.17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.” Deuteronomy 5.21 “‘And you shall not covet your […]
