Following Jesus

16) Can Your Faith Survive Prosperity?

 Today’s reading is from a blog that I follow.  Author Randy Alcorn shared these thoughts yesterday from his Eternal Perspectives Ministries website and blog ( http://www.epm.org ).  His words remind me of an old German proverb which says, “It takes strong shoulders to bear good times.”      Dwight L. Moody once said, “We can […]

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8) Turning the Other Cheek

The following article entitled The Jackie Robinson Story was written by author Eric Metaxas for the April 15, 2013  Breakpoint reading ( http://www.breakpoint.org / a ministry of Prison Fellowship).      The words are famous even among those who know little about baseball: “I’m looking for a ballplayer with guts enough not to fight back.”

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3) Faith in Training

From C. S. Lewis in Mere Christianity:     Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.  For moods will change, whatever view your reason takes.  I know that by experience.  Now

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