Imperishable Inheritance

I heard this excerpt read in Sun­day School, and I found it provoca­tive enough to share. It was writ­ten by Roy Hat­ter­s­ley a for­mer deputy leader of the U.K.‘s Labour Party. He was also a mem­ber of Par­lia­ment and a pro­lific writer. “Despite writ­ing books on John Wes­ley and the Sal­va­tion Army?s William and Cather­ine Booth, Hat­ter­s­ley remains a firm […]

My Father and my God, I con­fess that I am a sin­ner.  A per­son so full of sin that I am deserv­ing of noth­ing more than your just and swift wrath.  I have dis­obeyed, slan­dered, and ignored you.  I’m sorry that I live my life as though you don’t exist.  I instead pre­sume upon my own abil­i­ties, tal­ents, and ambi­tions and fail to […]

I recently had a dis­cus­sion with some peo­ple from my church that proved quite enlight­en­ing (and the food was good). The topic of con­ver­sa­tion was find­ing some­one who had the “same” call­ing as you in choos­ing a mate. It’s some­thing that I’ve cer­tainly thought a lot about, and it wasn’t until recently that I real­ized that my the­ol­ogy of […]