From My Utmost for His Highest

 By your patience possess your souls —Luke 21

I'd love some feedback in the area below about this, but I've been told that you're enjoying getting little bite sized pieces of the Rooster a couple times a week. Well, I figured I'd take a departure from that a bit and give you something that didn't quite make the final text but may make us less "ignorant of the way God has made us."

Looking around in nature, we see that God created the heavens and the earth with such precision and perfection, that it still functions today, magnifying His glory. I liken His creation to a couple, who toil for years, together, to painstakingly build a home, brick by brick, out of love. The Biblical account of Creation is unique among all other creation accounts in that it begins with . . .

     A Giveaway from Full Porch Press

For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ . . . —Philippians 3

No other book helped me more to think about the ways we choose to be away from God instead of entering into Heaven than The Great Divorce.

That's why it is my pleasure to offer this giveaway from Full Porch Press. You and a guest will not only see this production, but together we'll join a small group at an area restaurant to meet the man behind this great ministry. Max McLean will bring a great perspective on what it took to step into the role of Screwtape and bring C.S. Lewis' great works to the stage.

Details are below and this contest is open to anyone, so feel free to forward along to others. There's even a way you can get three entries in one! We can't wait to see you there.

     From My Utmost for His Highest

. . . strive to have a conscience without offense toward God and men —Acts 24

Chambers mentions that Jesus’ “commands are difficult. But they become divinely easy once we obey.”

I’d like to look a little closer at how obedience to God in things that are hard can ever become easy. Every fiber of our culture tells us that liberty and freedom is being able to do whatever we want and that rules serve to control us.  Consider this excerpt from A Rooster Once Crowed:

How can we connect our hearts’ greatest love to fuel our obedience to the truth that Jesus affirmed?