What spills out?

Christ wanted the bitter cup to pass..But it didn’t.  It has left me thinking about the “cups” in our lives… And this quote came to mind: Say you are holding a cup of coffee and someone bumps into you, making you spill your coffee everywhere. Why did you spill the coffee? You spilled it because that … More What spills out?

The difference between a hypocrite and a saint is repentance.

I’ve been pondering Christ’s experience with the barren fig tree this week. “The time of figs was not yet” could also be translated, according to Adam Clark’s commentary, as “the time of gathering figs had not yet come.” March and April were times for fig growth, but the gathering of the figs typically wasn’t until … More The difference between a hypocrite and a saint is repentance.

“In order to have a healed and faithful heart, we must first allow it to break before the Lord.”

There was once a man out playing catch. His glove was so broken-in that it could almost make the catch on its own without him doing much of anything. The man realized that maybe having broken heart is more about having a broken-in heart. A broken heart can seem non-functional. But with a broken-in heart … More “In order to have a healed and faithful heart, we must first allow it to break before the Lord.”