DISCIPLE

  “Are there not twelve hours in the day?”     John 11:9 When Jesus suggested going back to Judea, the disciples were terrified. The Jews had tried to stone Him there only recently, and now He was talking about a return visit. In answer to the disciple’s apprehension, Jesus said, “Are there not twelve hours in the day?”   At first glance, the question seems to be completely disconnected from the conversation. But what the Savior was saying was this – the working day is made up of twelve hours. When a person is yielded to God, every day has its appointed program. Nothing can thwart the accomplishing of that program. So even if Jesus went back to Jerusalem, and even if the Jews tried to kill Him again, they could not succeed. His work was not finished. His hour had not yet come.    For every child of God, it is true that he is “immortal till his work is done.” This should impart great peace and poise to our lives. If we are living in the will of God, an...

by A. W. Tozer  After hearing some Christians talk for a while, one begins to sense the presence of health or disease in their souls.  Certain words keep cropping up that tell us more about the speakers than they dream we know, and certainly more than they want us to know. Words are symptomatic.     One such word sometimes used among Christians is "fair," or its unpleasant sister "unfair."  People use these words to describe the treatment accorded them by other people, and on the surface they would seem to be altogether innocent, even indispensable words.  Nevertheless, they indicate an inner attitude that has no place among Christians.  The man who refers to one or another act as being "unfair" to him is not a victorious man.  He is inwardly defeated, and in self-defense he is appealing to the referee to note that he has been fouled.  This gives him an alibi when they carry him out on a stretcher and saves his face while his ...

excerpt from an article by Bruce Davidson in American Thinker , May 2016, reprinted in Psychoheresy Awareness Letter , Nov-Dec 2016.      While “unconditional love” sounds a lot like grace, it is really entitlement. It obliges people to accept others no matter what they do. Those who fail to do so can be accused of neglect or abuse      In their naïve failure to acknowledge evil human proclivities, humanistic psychologists maintained that children who always receive such unconditional love and acceptance grow up happy and whole. The reality is the opposite. They grow up spoiled, with their parents liable to emotional blackmail. In the wider world, this thinking gives rise to the widespread phenomenon of the “cry bully,” who demands things from others on the grounds of putative victimhood.      So the concept of unconditional love provides an open-ended basis for blame and manipulation, since...