The truth is that the sole reason we don’t see the world all around us as magic is that we are jaded, too cool for the school of wonder.

As Christians continue to be vilified let us continue to rejoice and be exceedingly glad. It means we are salt, light and with Him.

Creeds are definitions of what it means to be a Christian. They are fences that, albeit imperfectly, seek to separate sheep from goats.

I hope that we will learn from each other, but most of all that we would learn from God's Word, which equips us for every good work, including our calling to suffer for the glory of God and for the building of His kingdom.

The truth is that the sole reason we don’t see the world all around us as magic is that we are jaded, too cool for the school of wonder.

Imagine if you would, what would happen to your sorrows and fears if God Himself, the maker of heaven and earth, the Father of our Lord, the sovereign One, were to come to you, wrap you in His almighty arms and say to you, 'I love you with a perfect love, exactly as I love My Son. I will never stop loving you, no matter what. I am completely, utterly for you. I promise, on My own life, that I will do you good every day of your life. And because I control all things, that means My good is all you will ever experience from this time forward.'

No matter what obeisance the state may demand, we who serve the King are free indeed.