Words wither and blogs fade away…
Forgive me if you’ve heard this song before, but I've decided to stop blogging at He is Sufficient. I truly appreciate all of the wit, wisdom and words of faith that you have shared with me over the past few years. I wish you well in all of your endeavors, whatever they may be and wherever they may lead you. “God is sufficient for the needs of His people”. Amen!
Category Archives: devotions
Exchanged for life by the true money changer
I am in the middle of a web development project for one of my freelance clients. He is involved in numerous endeavors and needs a “hub site” that features his personal branding and links out to the other projects, which include a handful of blogs and mens’ ministry organizations. One thing that he’s requested was [...]
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Lecher or lover: how do you live the Bible?
With a huge HT to Rick at This Lamp, I’ve been reading Eugene Peterson’s Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading and have found it captivating, at least the early chapters that I’ve been through.
With the title taken from John’s experience of eating the scroll in Revelation 10, Peterson’s essential premise [...]
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Easter: what did Satan intend?
Peter Kirk has written an eloquent Easter sermon on the meaning of the resurrection of Jesus, captured with three “V”s: validation, victory and vision. In the second section, Victory, he writes:
Throughout Jesus’ time on earth he was attacked by evil, in demonic and human form. Eventually the devil thought that he won the victory, by [...]
Signs of the sufficiency of Shaddai
HT: Suzanne
In 1990, Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903-1994) summarized an interpretation of the meaning of El Shaddai by Rabbi Moses ben Maimon (1135-1204), popularly known as Maimonides:
[Maimonides] explains El Shaddai in terms of “the God for whom it is sufficient (shaddai lo): the God who is sufficient in Himself, whose essence is Himself, not in functions [...]
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The chaos of fear and trembling
I’m trying to wrap up my much-prolonged reading of Harold Best’s Unceasing Worship, however I seem to keep getting distracted by other projects and books. That said, a passage in his chapter, “What creative people can learn from God’s creation”, struck me yesterday.
Best is discussing the contrast between our rational need for order, symmetry, harmony [...]
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Be filled with the Spirit
Yesterday morning was an amazing experience of extremes. I woke up late (which I hate to do) and the boys were extraordinarily rambunctious, which I didn’t deal with very well. My wife left the house early to attend the 9:00 service before serving in the toddlers’ Sunday school room at 10:30. In her absence, the [...]
Calculating God’s will
The following was published today in Mikey’s Funnies, a daily humor subscription email:
CALCULATING GOD’S WILL
By Michael A. Halleen
“So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.” (Matthew 7:12)
John Cardinal Deardon once observed that “The designs of God are not able to [...]
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Two Ends of the Vine
I was struck recently by some thematic similarities between Ezekiel 15 and John 15, but have not yet found the words to adequately draw my thoughts together:
Ezekiel 15:1-8 (TNIV)
The word of the LORD came to me: “Son of man, how is the wood of a vine different from that of a branch from any [...]
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Who are we sacrificing to in marriage?
Oswald Chambers’ devotional My Utmost for His Highest includes the following quote today:
“The sense of sacrifice appeals readily to a young Christian. Humanly speaking, the one thing that attracts to Jesus Christ is our sense of the heroic, [but] the sense of heroic sacrifice is not good enough.”
There has been a lot written lately in [...]
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The wine of wrath and the dregs of depravity