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Have you ever thought that being lead by the Spirit meant that you should hear God speak to you, and that he should tell you what his will for your personal life is? I did. Have you ever thought that because everything in your life is a mess, you must not be yielding to the Spirit's call? I have. Early in my Christian walk I was very zealous for the Lord, and eager to serve him. I spent my spare time as a volunteer for Christian organizations, attended Christian events, watched Christian T.V., and listened to contemporary Christian music. But...

On Dec. 1, Harvard University’s Center for Health and the Global Environment gave its “Global Environmental Citizen Award” to the longtime liberal journalist Bill Moyers. Accepting the award from the actress Meryl Streep — she praised Moyers’s “resourceful, intrepid reportage,” and he praised her “special kind of courage” and declared himself “in the front row of [her] fan club” — Moyers devoted his speech to the dangers that Christian fundamentalists allegedly pose to the environment. “Remember James Watt, President Reagan’s first secretary of the interior?” Moyers said. “My favorite online environmental journal, the ever-engaging Grist, reminded us recently of how...

The Imitation of Christ Thomas à Kempis Previous Section Next Section Table of Contents The Eleventh Chapter ACQUIRING PEACE AND ZEAL FOR PERFECTION WE SHOULD enjoy much peace if we did not concern ourselves with what others say and do, for these are no concern of ours. How can a man who meddles in affairs not his own, who seeks strange distractions, and who is little or seldom inwardly recollected, live long in peace? Blessed are the simple of heart for they shall enjoy peace in abundance. Why were some of the saints so perfect and so given to...

JOHN WESLEY SERMON NINETY-TWO ON ZEAL "It is good to be always zealously affected in a good thing." Gal. 4:18. 1. There are few subjects in the whole compass of religion, that are of greater importance than this. For without zeal it is impossible, either to make any considerable progress in religion ourselves, or to do any considerable service to our neighbour, whether in temporal or spiritual things. And yet nothing has done more disservice to religion, or more mischief to mankind, than a sort of zeal which has for several ages prevailed, both in Pagan, Mahometan, and Christian nations....