Sonshine for your soul
Posted in integrity on Sep 9th, 2014
The best way to weaken the influence of an attacking troublemaker is almost always by indirect action rather than a loud “Shut up!”
You see, the troublemaker likely won’t shut up and might spew even more poison about you.
You’ve seen this happen at the job or at the school or among extended family or perhaps […]
Posted in Patience on Aug 14th, 2014
Sometimes, the Gospel is served when our egos are suppressed.
It’s never pleasant when a non-Christian says or does something offensive to us.
And it’s an emotional stretch sometimes when we choose to forgo the purchase of a much-wanted item so that we might donate the money to a truly needy person or […]
Posted in Satan on Aug 12th, 2014
If you believe in the Bible, you believe in Jesus.
And if you believe in Jesus, you’ve got to believe the Devil is real.
That means that spiritual warfare is real since Satan comes to steal, kill and destroy.
If we’re going to survive spiritually in the cosmic conflict between good and evil, between the magnet of God’s […]
Posted in faithfulness on Jul 25th, 2014
There is no place for coasting when it comes to faithfulness.
We can’t push the accelerator to the floorboard of faith in order to cruise down the highway of holiness and then take our eyes off the road and foot off the gas AND expect to roll right into glory.
We’ve got to keep pressing into spiritual […]
Posted in persecution on Jul 23rd, 2014
Christians being killed in Iraq because of their faith.
The same is happening in Nigeria.
The culprits are hoodlums masquerading as religious zealots ostensibly on a mission to purify their regions of any theology-based threat to their radical, ultra-conservative Islamic belief.
It’s perhaps happening elsewhere and we just haven’t yet heard about it.
Persecution on a non-fatal level is […]
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Martin Drummond