There is perhaps no greater force drawing us away from God’s love than our fear. Our regrets over the past are fears of inadequacy, and for our place in this world. Our longing for the past is based in the fear that our best is behind us. Our anxieties over the future represent innumerable fears … Continue reading Surrender to trust
Grace
Searching our hearts for Jonah
Wednesday in the First Week of Lent "Forty days more, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!" Jonah’s warning to the Ninevites – after his unsuccessful attempt to run from God, and his three-day encounter with a rather large fish – rings as true to us today as it did some 2,800 years ago. There’s some obvious … Continue reading Searching our hearts for Jonah
Focus on the path ahead
If they had been thinking of the land that they had left behind, they would have had opportunity to return. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; indeed, he has prepared a city for them. Hebrews 11:15-16 This … Continue reading Focus on the path ahead
Keep up the passion, strive for grace
I am, by almost any measure, passionate in my beliefs. Many of you, including some who have written me recently, also are passionate in your beliefs. This passion is a good thing. A republic of free citizens demands for its survival that we form and propound opinions about how our nation should be guided, and … Continue reading Keep up the passion, strive for grace
James R. Neal 