Sometimes I feel embarrassed at reposting or commenting so often on Mike’s posts. I’m usually reading these everyday as part of my morning devotions. I do find them more useful than most of the published modern devotional materials, primarily because Mike focuses on the Scripture and does a good job of reviewing the underlying text… Continue reading Teaching and Making Disciples…..
Category: Discernment
For God’s Glory…..
Great wisdom from two witnesses of the early Reformation, Mike Ratliff does well to present this. Humanism is a form of idolatry. Why? it refuses to submit to the sovereignty of God. It says that the end of all things is the happiness of Man. Genuine Christianity says that the end of all things is… Continue reading For God’s Glory…..
Complete in Christ
A good read…. 8 Beware lest there be any man that spoil you through philosophy, and vain deceit, through the traditions of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.9 For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Colossians 2:8-9 (1599 Geneva Bible) The Greek word used here… Continue reading Complete in Christ
My Old Apple Tree, needs Sun and Dunging
I’m reading Mike Ratliff’s post this mornings and wondering about my Apple Tree with has a hard time bearing or bringing forth fruit. A neighbor who has her own Granny Smith Tree, get’s amazing fruit. She says it’s from trimming the tree every other year….and those years she didn’t trim it are the ones producing… Continue reading My Old Apple Tree, needs Sun and Dunging