I continue to dream and pray about a revival of holiness in our day that moves forth in mission and creates authentic community in which each person can be unleashed through the empowerment of the Spirit to fulfill God's creational intentions.
I bless his name that I have nothing to do with earth, but only to labour honestly in it for God, (...). I think I do not desire to live one minute for any thing that earth can afford. Oh that I could live for none but God, till my dying moment!
If plain words can take on allegorical or alternative meanings so easily, so that they do not mean what they plainly state, how do we know what anything means?
Affliction without the Word is a furnace for the metal, but there is no flux to aid the purifying : the Word of God supplies that need, and makes the fiery trial effectual.
Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me, saying, “Leonard, you took Me too seriously”?
