Kathleen S Evenhouse
Writing With Vision
Have some of you noticed that we are not yet perfect? (No great surprise, right?) And are you ready to make the accusation that since people like me, who go through Christ in order to get things right with God, aren’t perfectly virtuous, Christ must therefore be an accessory to sin? The accusation is frivolous.… Read More
You’ve blown it again. You’ve blown it again. You’re trying, but with your imperfect raw materials, you can’t live the way you want to live, the way God’s righteousness demands that you live. You have proved once again that it is impossible for you to measure up to God’s standard of perfection. You’re not alone;… Read More
We are proof of imperfection and sin. God designed perfect people to walk with Him in a perfect world. Sin entered the world because of our choice. And look around you at the world, look at me? We are proof of imperfection and sin. Yet Jesus taught us to pray for God’s Kingdom to be… Read More
God loves you: when you don’t feel lovely. when it seems that nobody else loves you. when you don’t love yourself. God designed you, you know. Before the world was formed, he had a plan and a purpose for you. Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to… Read More
I must confess that my first reaction to the story in John 8, “A Woman Caught in Adultery,” has often been defensive finger-pointing. Me: “It takes two to commit adultery. What are they going to do to the man?” That’s not the point Jesus makes in this story. It’s not: “But everybody else is doing… Read More
Pour oil and water into a container, and you will see that they don’t mix. The oil droplets are evident in and on the water. That’s how it is with truth and grace, if you’re human. The two don’t mix together. Grace without truth stops growth. God, our Father, blends grace and truth together. He… Read More
“Hallelujah! O my soul, praise God! All my life long I’ll praise God, singing songs to my God as long as I live. Don’t put your life in the hands of experts who know nothing of life, of salvation life. Mere humans don’t have what it takes; when they die, their projects die with them. Instead, get help from… Read More
Kathleen S Evenhouse 