Real Faith Is Refined In The Fires

If We Don't Understand How Metaphor Works We Will Misunderstand Most Of What We Read In The Bible. No Matter How Carefully We Parse Our Hebrew And Greek Sentences, No Matter How Precisely We Use Our Dictionaries And Trace Our Etymologies, No Matter How Exactly We Define The Words On The Page, If We Do Not Appreciate The Way A Metaphor Works We Will Never Comprehend The Meaning Of The Text.

Love Is Not A Word That Describes My Feelings; It Is Not A Technique By Which I Fulfill My Needs; It Is Not An Ideal, Abstract And Pure, On Which I Meditate Or Discourse. It Is Acting In Correspondence With Or In Response To God In Relation To Persons.

The Only Opportunity You Will Ever Have To Live By Faith Is In The Circumstances You Are Provided This Very Day: This House You Live In, This Family You Find Yourself In, This Job You Have Been Given, The Weather Conditions That Prevail At The ...moment.

Worship Is An Act That Develops Feelings For God, Not A Feeling For God That Is Expressed In An Act Of Worship.

The Life Of Faith Is A Daily Exploration Of The Constant And Countless Ways In Which Gods Grace And Love Are Expereinced