PEACE, Who Wants It?

Scripture “I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid.” ~John 14:27, NLT Quote “You {God} made us for Yourself and our hearts find no peace until they rest in You.” ~Augustine Sigmund Freud was…

City Of God

Scripture Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob. Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. ~Psalm 87:2-3, LSB Quote No man can be perfectly happy in this life. ~Augustine It took Augustine 14 years to write the CITY OF GOD which was his most notable work.…

Calling Down The Fire

Scripture And when His disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, just as Elijah did?” ~Luke 9:54, NKJV Quote We can love that which should not be loved and hate that which should not be hated. Both loves…

The Essence Of Life

Scripture “When he finally came to his senses, he said to himself, ‘At home even the hired servants have food enough to spare, and here I am dying of hunger! I will go home to my father and say, “Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you, and I am no longer worthy of being called…

The Trinity In Philosophy

Scripture Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. ~Genesis 1:3-4, LSB Quote God’s creation was made solely because of His goodness, not by reason of any necessity, nor of any need to use the thing…

Angels

Scripture Praise the LORD, you angels, you mighty ones who carry out His plans, listening for each of His commands. ~Psalm 103:20, NLT Quote They {angels} are so on fire with a holy love of God’s beauty that they hold in disdain all things–including themselves–which are less than divine. ~Augustine   I am reading Augustine’s City of…

Practice What You Preach

Scripture So you must be careful to do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. Matthew 23:3, NIV Quote Some preachers preach cream and live skimmed milk. ~Vance Havner I have a long standing conviction: I am going to preach the pure ethic…

The City of God

Scripture Abraham was confidently looking forward to a city with eternal foundations, a city designed and built by God. ~Hebrews 11:10, NLT Quote Our contemporaries aspire to build a universal society of men, a one world government of peace and prosperity without Christ. ~Etienne Gilson Visigoth general Alaric in the summer of 410, besieged Rome…

The Savage Monster

Scripture A person’s pride will bring him low, but one who has a lowly spirit will gain honor. ~Proverbs 29:23, NET Quote The god of this world is pride. ~Martin Luther Dr. Graham’s September 29 devotion is about spiritual growth. We begin as babes in Christ, craving the milk of the word, but we are…

Time And Eternity

Scripture  In hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began. ~Titus 1:2,NKJV Quote “What is time? If no one asks me, I know but if I try to explain it to someone who asks me, I do not know.” ~Augustine {My Confessions, p. 232} As finite human beings, we can…