Sit and Be Fed
“Incline your ear, and come unto Me: hear, and your soul shall live.” — Isaiah 55:3 The house of God is rich with mercy, prophecy, and wisdom—sit still, listen well,…
Whole in Prayer
“Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.” — Ephesians 6:18 Prayer must be whole and stubborn—body,…
The Wild Call of Holiness
The Wild Call of Holiness “For our God is a consuming fire.” —Hebrews 12:29 Holiness is not a safe or polished goodness, but a wild, consuming fire that breaks, remakes,…
The Will That Moves Through Us
True prayer is not the pressing of our own desires upon God, but the yielding of our hearts to His will, where the Spirit plants deeper longings than we could…
The Old Fire
Lukewarm faith has become the norm, but the fire of ancient Christianity still burns—if we are but willing to bear its heat. —D. +++ What was once the heart’s natural…
The Harvest Worth Its Ache
The Harvest Worth Its Ache by Donavon L Riley True worship is not a matter of casting off form and rite, but of yielding to the deep, shaping power of…
It Is Not The World That Is Remade Here, But You
It Is Not The World That Is Remade Here, But You by Donavon L Riley If you wish to know Christ—not as a concept to be studied, but as a…
What Can And Will Be
What Can And Will Be by Donavon L Riley Christianity has too often bowed at the altars of power, offering its wild and untamed Gospel to the machinery of politics…
Steadfast, Immovable Love
Steadfast, Immovable Love by Donavon L Riley God calls us not into the world’s war, where noise is the weapon and chaos the creed, but into something older, something carved…
Not By Our Own Strength
Not By Our Own Strength by Donavon L Riley It’s in our faltering, our stumbling into sin or grief, that God begins His strange work in us. He lets failure…