Author: Amerikaner

We are all crucified in the end upon the Cross of our own making. We need to choose on which side of Christ we choose to suffer: accepting our hardships on His right hand or reviling Him for them on His left.

A life without suffering is a life without meaning and purpose, and the worst thing a man can do is deny himself meaningful struggle by fleeing from it.

We worship God in spirit and in truth when our worship, be it liturgical or mundane, is done out of love rather than merely obedience.

We can plead ignorance of God in excusing our faults, but cannot forget it was at the hands of the ignorant that He was tortured.

God will never send us into battle without the weapons to win the war being waged against us. We only need to pick them up.

We follow Christ our leader out of the slavery of Sin, like the Hebrews out of Egypt, but do we have the fortitude to do what the Hebrews could not, and never look back?

Live in the moment, but not for the moment: struggle and strive, neither presume nor despair. Give your whole self to this fight, and you will share the final victory.

Peace is a state of soul, not the aftermath of contention but the means wherby cantankerous sin is quieted, the prerequisite of all worldly peace.

To Abraham and Sarah, God promised a people, whom their son would anoint; to Zacharias and Elizabeth He promised a Saviour, whom their son would baptize.

Arm yourself for battle, train for competition, pray, be wakeful, and humble yourself before God to take up your daily Cross.