Changing Character

When one is contemplating the changing of behavior from fleshly (or sinful) to godly there are a couple questions that naturally arise. Since we want to avoid legalism how does one change outward behavior while the inner man still wants to speak crossly, or let a discipline slide, or entertain a lustful thought?
We have [...]

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A Poem

Sabbath
The mind that comes to rest is tended
In ways that it cannot intend:
Is borne, preserved, and comprehended
By what it cannot comprehend.
Your Sabbath, Lord, thus keeps us by
Your will, not ours. And it is fit
Our only choice should be to die
Into that rest, or out of it.
Wendell Berry
Berry, Wendell. A Timbered Choir (Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1998), [...]

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Sharing Common Ground

I’ve been reading a lot of Dallas Willard lately.  One of the reasons is that his premise is the same as that I’ve been championing for several years, but some of the “therefore” thinking he has done from that premise is really putting some pieces of the puzzle into perspective for me.  So I started [...]

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