God LIKES Us – The Gospel Still Floors Me

Occasionally, I have the good sense to spend some time on Bible verses that I usually gloss over. Ephesians 1:4-5 says that God loved us before the creation of the world, chose to reckon us faultless through Christ (like, for free), and that He took great pleasure in that. There are no words to describe …

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A Quote from Buechner

From Telling Secrets by Frederich Buechner: “Life batters and shapes us in all sorts of ways before it's done, but those original selves which we were born with, and which I believe we continue in some measure to be no matter what, are selves which still echo with the holiness of their origin. I believe that …

Universal Experience in the Time of Augustine

"To love then, and to be beloved, was sweet to me; but more, when I obtained to enjoy the person I loved, I defiled, therefore, the spring of friendship with the filth of concupiscence, and I beclouded its brightness with the hell of lustfulness . . . . My God, my Mercy, with how much …