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My friends, thank you for reading if you do what I write. I hope I do not burden you with mere words. I simply get up living in the middle of a corn field with little but me and my thoughts. Which I pray are stirred by my faith that God is with me. S

You can't be lost without first truly belonging! Our belonging trumps any lostness we have ever experienced! As bearers of the image and likeness of God, we are always invited into the depths of His searching and finding. I desire to fully know and b

Psalm 50, thoughts.
written by Michael McBane

My recent meditations brought me to Psalm 50. I will share some of the thoughts that percolated as I read. I will extract particular verses and make some applications. My applications may take liberties ac

His Life Within

written by Michael McBane

I often present similar themes but I do so with deliberate purpose. I find I can not move around such themes because of the call on our family so here I go again. To centralize, “My children, with whom I am aga

Each of us has a significant part to play in God's plan of Redemption! And it is not a 'bit' part or role! It is a call to "fight the good fight of faith." Preparation is critical; even non-negotiable. More than Moses have sheepishly argued with "God

James Taylor wrote a song many years ago which begins:

There’s something in the way she moves,
Looks my way or calls my name,
That seems to leave this troubled world behind.
And if I’m feeling down and blue, or troubled by some foolish game,
She alway

Forgiven and Forgiving

written by Michael McBane

Having titled this piece forgiving I was stifled by this thought, I have not written such a word or the extensions there of, it is written by God alone. Having prefessed my words let me continue with thi

In response to a question about an opinion in his new book Jeb Bush responds:

Asked to explain the about-face, Bush blamed the shifting political sands. “We wrote this last year,” he said.

Interesting.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/07/

James 1:27 sits at the heart of the poverty issue today which sits at the very heart of our Gospel. What sits at the heart of the poverty issue therefore is the question of what is acceptable religion before God?

James 1:27 “Religion that God our Fath

Anti-Christ even?

Not Really.

I did not know this......hmmmmmm.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/04/pastor-joshua-dubois-former-head-of-w-h-faith-office-on-church-and-state.html

Oh, and I will buy dinner for the first person who provides t

Many years ago, at The Dales Bible Week, I heard a preacher called C.J. Mahaney speak about “Developing a Teachable Spirit”. He quoted a man called Charles Simpson who said,

“I’d rather teach a man how to learn than to teach him all I know”.

That talk

This is Revelation eighteen verses three and four. 

I don't actually mean to say that these specific issues were on the mind of John the Revelator when he wrote his prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem which happened in AD 70 however there is a p

I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and exhibit as nothingness, the understanding of the experts. (1 Corinthians 1:19)

When Jesus arrested me with His love, I wasn’t exactly a prize catch. And that admission is not self-abasement or false humility;

 Jesus told two very short parables in Matthew 13:44-46

“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven i

A while ago we pointed out what the Lord was speaking to us about from Matthew 24. At the risk of sounding like repetition, I would like to revisit that passage. In the first two verses we are told:

“Jesus left the temple and was walking away when his