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Life by the Inch

Anita Mathias — Sun, 12 May 2019 18:17:15 +0000

One step. That’s what I like best about following Jesus. It’s difficult, it’s carrying your cross, but all we have to focus on is one step… one step forward, one step of biting your tongue, one step of empathy, one step of kindness, one step of self-control, one step of making the right choice. And […]

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On Being Christian with a small c or a big C

Anita Mathias — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 06:58:46 +0000

Image Credit Our family was discussing a writer who has done paradigm-breaking innovative work. “Is she a Christian?” my daughter Irene asked. “Yes. She’s a Christian. With a small C, I’d guess.” “What’s that?” Irene asked. “Hmm… Someone who goes to church, more or less respects Jesus and the Bible, but who does not see […]

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In Which Jesus Gives Us A New Name And A New Character

Anita Mathias — Thu, 29 May 2014 17:05:33 +0000

To the one who is victorious, I will also give a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it. Revelation 2:17 And so, we heave up our cross, And follow him, Oh, not spectacularly at all. Dropping it, Meandering off course, Sometimes forgetting we had resolved To […]

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The Will of God Always Leads Us to a Larger Place

Anita Mathias — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 19:49:53 +0000

As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.” At once they left their nets and followed him. (Matthew 4 18-20) So the fishers of […]

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C. S. Lewis on Whether the Christian Life if Hard or Easy. (I love this!)

Anita Mathias — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:45:00 +0000

I love this passage in Mere Christianity in which Lewis talks about whether the Christian life is hard or easy. It’s both, Lewis says. It’s hard as death in the beginning, and then as his life begins to worth within us and transform us, it is relatively easy, because he does the work of transforming […]

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