http://www.ourdailyjourney.org Our Daily Journey with God Sat, 25 May 2013 04:01:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2013/05/18/that-name/ http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2013/05/18/that-name/#comments Sat, 18 May 2013 04:01:00 +0000 marvin williams http://www.ourdailyjourney.org//2013/05/18/that-name/ http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2013/05/18/that-name/feed/ 0 http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2013/05/08/65-gifts/ http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2013/05/08/65-gifts/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 04:01:00 +0000 marvin williams http://www.ourdailyjourney.org//2013/05/08/65-gifts/ http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2013/05/08/65-gifts/feed/ 4 http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2013/04/30/for-a-lifetime/ http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2013/04/30/for-a-lifetime/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:01:00 +0000 marvin williams http://www.ourdailyjourney.org//2013/04/30/for-a-lifetime/ The Social Animal, details how Gary McPherson studied 157 randomly selected children who had chosen to play a musical instrument. McPherson wanted to know why some students went on to become really good musicians and why others faltered. He believed there was one factor. Even before the kids picked up their instruments, McPherson asked: “How long do you think you will play?” The students who planned to play for a short while did not become very proficient. The students who planned to practice and play their whole lives became very good musicians.]]> http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2013/04/30/for-a-lifetime/feed/ 4 http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2013/04/23/whose-will/ http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2013/04/23/whose-will/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 04:01:00 +0000 marvin williams http://www.ourdailyjourney.org//2013/04/23/whose-will/ Generation Ex-Christian is a book about younger believers leaving Christianity. Drew Dyck, the author of the book, chronicles one interview he had with a young man who left Christianity to join the Wiccans: “Ultimately why I left is that the Christian God demands that you submit to His will. In Wicca, it’s just the other way around. Your will is paramount. We believe in gods and goddesses, but the deities we choose to serve are based on our wills.” This young man’s desire to turn from the true and living God to idols is not shocking, nor is it new.]]> http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2013/04/23/whose-will/feed/ 10 http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2013/04/14/no-tampering/ http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2013/04/14/no-tampering/#comments Sun, 14 Apr 2013 04:01:00 +0000 marvin williams http://www.ourdailyjourney.org//2013/04/14/no-tampering/ Rain Man, once went to a performance of a Shakespearean play. As the performance was ending, Peek stood up and shouted, “You’ve got to stop it, stop it, stop it.” Why? An actor had skipped the second to last verse of the play. The actor apologized and said, “The verses are so much alike, I didn’t think it would matter.” Peek is quoted as saying, “It mattered to Shakespeare, and it should matter to you.”]]> http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2013/04/14/no-tampering/feed/ 1 http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2013/04/04/pandora/ http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2013/04/04/pandora/#comments Thu, 04 Apr 2013 04:01:00 +0000 marvin williams http://www.ourdailyjourney.org//2013/04/04/pandora/ http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2013/04/04/pandora/feed/ 1 http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2013/03/28/streams-in-the-desert/ http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2013/03/28/streams-in-the-desert/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:08:24 +0000 marvin williams http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/?p=13750 http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2013/03/28/streams-in-the-desert/feed/ 1 http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2013/03/01/correcting-blind-spots/ http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2013/03/01/correcting-blind-spots/#comments Fri, 01 Mar 2013 04:01:00 +0000 marvin williams http://www.ourdailyjourney.org//2013/03/01/correcting-blind-spots/ The Call to Joy and Pain, Ajith Fernando, a Christian leader from Sri Lanka, wrote: “The church in each culture has its own special challenges—theological blind spots that hinder Christians from growing to full maturity in Christ. . . . I think one of the most serious theological blind spots in [today’s] western church is a defective understanding of suffering. . . . The ‘good life’—comfort, convenience, and a painless life—have become necessities that people view as basic rights. If they do not have these, they think something has gone wrong. . . . One of the results of this attitude is a severe restriction of spiritual growth, for God intends us to grow through trials.”]]> http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2013/03/01/correcting-blind-spots/feed/ 4 http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2013/02/19/pray-for-them/ http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2013/02/19/pray-for-them/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2013 05:01:00 +0000 marvin williams http://www.ourdailyjourney.org//2013/02/19/pray-for-them/ Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer states: “A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me. His face, that hitherto may have been strange and intolerable to me, is transformed in intercession into the countenance of a brother for whom Christ died, the face of a forgiven sinner.”]]> http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2013/02/19/pray-for-them/feed/ 2 http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2013/01/29/squash-the-beef/ http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2013/01/29/squash-the-beef/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2013 05:01:00 +0000 marvin williams http://www.ourdailyjourney.org//2013/01/29/squash-the-beef/ http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/2013/01/29/squash-the-beef/feed/ 3