Ancient Paths in a Modern World

"Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls." 

  • just a thought…

    Doctrines rescue us from relationship with God. But since doctrines are a part of our religion we write doctrines about relationship. Before you know it we find ourselves so very bound up we can’t see which way is up , and which way is out. Scary. Read more

  • fav

    This is my favorite page in all of the Bible…. It’s the one that separates in the Old and New Covenants.  Read more

  • us being right, ever?

    When infused with the person of Holy Spirit we become awoken to the weaknesses and failures of everyone around us. A fight to use that info is constantly happening, the evil one loves to come in under the guise of religious and lawful thought turning those perceptions into a very satisfying fuel for why you… Read more

  • These things be teaching and exhorting; 3if any one be teaching otherwise, and do not consent to sound words — those of our Lord Jesus Christ — and to the teaching according to piety, 4he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings, 5wranglings… Read more

  • It’s pretty easy to see why New Testament gifts aren’t manifesting in many of today’s churches. It’s because our actions and interactions within our communities are most like the Old Testament. God took on flesh, died, and resurrected so that we could chose to die daily and be embodied by this resurrected God.  “Therefore I urge… Read more

  • clean knees

    From my perspective those who have “a good theology” often have the cleanest knees. Letting go of “my theology” and letting God have the room He demands has justly broken me to weariness in light of His spender and goodness. It’s only biblical… you encounter God and are broken down.  Read more

  • selah

    “The lower I am the more proper my place seems; and the higher I am the stronger my suspicion is that there has been some mistake.” ~ Vaclav Havel – First Post-Communist President of Czechoslovakia  Read more

  • no one sees

    When the judgment of others is left unchallenged in the heart of a person it runs rampant destroying the ability to love and be loved. Don’t be misled what happens in the hidden places matters.  As long as judgment is befriended it will be impossible to love others and even to find comfort in your… Read more

  • it’s on us.

    God has done everything possible to set us free from the bondage of sin and it’s effects. He has had mercy on us, forgiving us to uttermost, and has even chosen to forget our sins (Psalm 103:12). In many places in the scriptures Jesus commands us to forgive, to bless and and not to curse,… Read more