by Elaine Olsen | Oct 6, 2008 | christian perfection, living God's truth
“He said to another man, ‘Follow me.’ But the man replied ‘Lord, first let me go and bury my father.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.’ Still another man said, ‘I will follow you, Lord; but first let me...
by Elaine Olsen | Oct 2, 2008 | grace, living God's truth, theology
“‘For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.’” (John 3:16). My father’s heart. It sat for examination yesterday under the microscope of the learned. A blockage was found. A stint...
by Elaine Olsen | Sep 29, 2008 | christian perfection, living God's truth, peace, rest
“Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do; Forgetting what is behind and...
by Elaine Olsen | Sep 22, 2008 | living God's truth, peace, rest
“‘I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the...
by Elaine Olsen | Sep 19, 2008 | christian perfection, living God's truth, Setting the Table for Communion
For a final time (at least as far as this series is concerned), please read our Scripture focus, Luke 24:13-36. May God bless the reading of his Word as only he can. “They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them,...
