This week a dear friend sent me this quote from Oswald Chambers’ devotional book, My Utmost For His Highest : “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin” – they simply are! Think of the sea, the air, the sun, the stars, and the moon – all of these […]
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I Am Desperate For Your Love, Lord
One of the theologians I learned more about in the seminary class I’m currently taking is Anselm of Canterbury. He wrote a book on the atonement, Cur Deus Homo (Why God Became Man), that continues to influence our view of what Christ accomplished on the cross. A while ago I found this prayer by Anselm […]
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Righteousness is the natural and essential food of the soul, which can no more be satisfied by earthly treasures than the hunger of the body can be satisfied by air. If you should see a starving man standing with mouth open to the wind, inhaling drafts of air as if in hope of gratifying his […]
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