Grief suddenly surging upon His frame, "We should depart."A place to pray."Watch and wait."He steps away.To the place where men are broken and men are made. The Crucible. Gethsemane.Heart beating. Faster breathing. Panic seizing. Falling, weeping. Sweating, heaving. Terror, bleeding. Desperate, screeching. Begging, pleading."My Father!"Behold.What are we seeing?!?A God wee...

I have been worrying about the wrong thing. Because I am convinced that our mission as a church is to make disciples that make disciples I have been worrying about how I could make this happen. It has burdened me in the wrong kind of way. I have felt almost depressed over my inability to make this happen. In fact some of those whom I had thought I was discipling don't seem...

Sin demands to have a man by himself. It withdraws him from the community. The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he becomes involved in it, the more disastrous is his isolation. Sin wants to remain unknown. It shuns the light [But] In confession, the light of the gospel breaks into the light Since the con...