These “if’s” do not come from the mouth of God. Nor do they come from the mouth of Jesus.
They come from the mouth of that other guy. The devil.
Three Big If’s
Sermons
Big T little t
Everytime I look at a passage from scripture I find myself in the land of Big T and little t.
A Confluence
…on the fourth, maybe the fifth throw, my stone will land, not with a thud, but with a splash. My stone will land in the place, on this wonderful blue-green planet of ours, where the Connecticut and the Deerfield rivers come together.
The Haemon Principle
“Let not your first thought be your only thought,” Haemon says to his father.
“Think if there cannot be some other way.”
The Crucial Moment
Am I in danger? Or can I trust this person?
Almost every day we must ask ourselves and answer these questions.
Love
I opened the envelope and looked inside.
I stood there for about 30 seconds, thinking about Pat’s words… and then I understood!
“Ahhh!!! I thought… How right she is!
Peace
Our creaturely, human peace – sitting in front of the fire with a cat purring in your lap, for example – does not “surpass all understanding.” On the contrary – it is utterly within the realm of understanding… and yet…