Archive for December 2020
1.1.21 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on prayer. Part 46. Partner.
Happy new year! DEVOTION: “The difference, we are told, between a servant and a friend is that a servant is not in his master’s secrets. For him, “orders is orders”. He has only his own surmises as to the plans he helps to execute. But the fellow-worker, the companion or (dare we say?) the colleague…
Read More12.31.20 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on prayer. Part 45. New.
DEVOTION: “Almighty God, who art the father of lights and who has promised by thy dear Son that all who do thy will shall know thy doctrine: give me grace so to live that by daily obedience I daily increase in faith and in the understanding of thy Holy Word, through Jesus Christ our Lord.”…
Read More12.30.20 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on prayer. Part 44. The desert?
DEVOTION: “If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God, it will make no difference in the end what you have chosen instead” – Thomas More. Then Lewis explains this a little bit. “Will it really make no difference whether it was women or patriotism, cocaine or art, whiskey or a seat in the Cabinet,…
Read More12.29.20 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on prayer. Part 43. Surrender.
DEVOTION: Continuing yesterday’s thought. “For he claims all, because He is love and must bless. He cannot bless us unless He has us. When we try to keep within us an area that is our own, we try to keep an area of death. Therefore, in love, He claims all. There’s no bargaining with Him.”…
Read More12.28.20 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on prayer. Part 42.
DEVOTION: “For some (nobody knows which) the Christian life will include much leisure, many occupations we naturally like. But these will be received from God’s hands. In a perfect Christian they would be as much part of his ‘religion’, his ‘service’, as his hardest duties, and his feasts would be as Christian as his fasts.…
Read More12.27.20 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on prayer. Part 41. Battle.
DEVOTION: “For it is not so much of our time and so much of our attention that God demands; it is not even all our time and all our attention: it is ourselves.” (Pg 101) Surrender. Once again this word rises to the surface. It’s such a stern and wonderful reminder here. We can give…
Read More12.26.20 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on prayer. Part 40. Open.
DEVOTION: “Our real protection is to be sought elsewhere; in common Christian usage, in moral theology, in steady rational thinking, in the advice of good friends and good books, and (if need be) in a skilled spiritual director. Swimming lessons are better than a lifeline to the shore.” (Pg 100) Swimming lessons are better than…
Read More12.25.20 – Daily Dose of Worship. Christmas.
O come let us adore Him. “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” – Isaiah 9:6-7 Praise Him today.
Read More12.24.20 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on prayer. Part 39. Sacrifice.
DEVOTION: “Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers. We approve of an income tax in principle. We make our returns truthfully. But we dread a rise in the tax. We are very careful to pay no more than is…
Read More12.23.20 – Daily Dose of Worship. A study on prayer. Part 38. Wet.
DEVOTION: “This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that sea (I think St. John of the Cross called God a sea) and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash, careful not to get out of my depth and holding on to the lifeline which connects me with…
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