Why I Don’t Want to Hear God’s Voice

Hearing or listening?

Hearing or listening?

In 1 Samuel chapter three we find an interesting account of a young man who is hearing the voice of God for the very first time in his life. The passage records Samuel lying down in the temple. No doubt, he was trying to get some sleep in preparation for the early morning duties that he was responsible for in the temple. So often, our plans and God’s tend to run contrary to each other and in the midst of Samuel’s peaceful slumber he was jolted as someone called out his name. Almost instinctively, Samuel runs to Eli, the priest of the temple, and the man of God in his life.

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Love

love

love

Love, that precarious proposition that is somehow the culprit responsible for life’s happiest moments, and possibly life’s deepest wounds. Libraries are filled with books and writings by men and women who have attempted to encapsulate love from almost every imaginable angle. It is the subject of songs and the notion of poems. Four simple letters strung together form a word that has caused wars, both internal and external. Love has been the driving force that has led people to spend exuberant sums of money, act out of character, totally embarrass themselves, overthink, under think, assume, misinterpret, and even lie to themselves. The desire to love, and be loved, is arguably both a blessing, and at times, a curse. Having experienced both the euphoric happiness and the overwhelming heartache love can bring it is without a doubt a ballad, a bittersweet symphony of emotions. We are so often held captive to the masquerade of our chemistry that we blindly chase love and never understand the composition of love itself. In order to understand love, we so often look within and without and never look to the one who created love. The notion of love extends beyond emotion, across the pages of history, and originates in the mind of the God from which everything originated; to understand love first requires looking beyond the periphery of our finite existence and into the eyes of God.

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Silence in the Noise

  It’s a Monday night and I’m sitting in our designated dressing room with my other teammates. We are all getting geared up for our hockey game which starts in the next 20 minutes. This has become my usual routine. Read more…

The Art of Self Examination

self examination

John Wesley

 

In 1729, while John Wesley was a student at Oxford, he started a club with his brother, Charles. It was soon mockingly dubbed “The Holy Club” by some of his fellow collegians.

The club members rigorously self-examined themselves everyday by asking the following 22 questions:

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Soul Selfies

We’ve all seen it and perhaps posted a few ourselves; the smiling face of the camera owner, and perhaps a friend, taking their own picture and posting it for feedback. The ‘selfie,’ a 21st century phenomena. Selfies really went viral Read more…

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