Year: 2020

“The sign that the process has been successful is how God is able to use the ritual to reveal God’s self.  Good liturgy is like a windsock that way. It fills up with God and points in the direction that the Spirit is blowing.” 

“When I read stories like this one, I have to try not to laugh at those who claim martyrdom today when their ideas are not accepted, they feel they are being wronged over small things, or people disagree with them. Our Christian calendar is so full of real martyrs, those who faced death because they followed Jesus and didn’t back down when the time for execution came.”

“These medical pioneers responded to a need and a call to combine their gifts for healing with their passion to heal the suffering and restore them to life, body and spirit. While not all of us are called to build great clinics, we are all charged with bringing compassion and healing to those we encounter who are suffering and in need of healing and restoration.”

“The Maker of heaven and earth loves me and tenderly cares for me: who can do me harm?”

“I will be joyful and serve the Lord with gladness and come before his presence with a song, sure that the Lord is God, that I am his, a sheep of his pasture, ready to enter into his presence with thanksgiving and speak good of his name, for he is gracious, his mercy is everlasting, and his truth endures generation to generation.”