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For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline. Do not be ashamed, then, of the testimony about our Lord or of me his prisoner, but join with me in suffering for the<a class="moretag" href="https://life.ccel.org/spirit-of-power/"> Read more…</a></p> </div><div class="posted-by vcard author">By <a href="https://life.ccel.org/author/hplantin/" title="Harry Plantinga" class="url"><b class="author-name fn">Harry Plantinga</b></a>, <a href="https://life.ccel.org/spirit-of-power/"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2019-09-30T05:00:40-04:00" content="2019-09-30">5 years</time><time class="updated hestia-hidden" datetime="2020-07-22T08:45:19-04:00">2019-09-30</time> ago </a></div></div></div></article><article id="post-383" class="card card-blog card-plain post-383 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-meditation tag-bkg-contentment tag-life-spiritual tag-bkg-st-john-of-ruysbroeck"><div class="row "><div class="col-ms-5 col-sm-5"><div class="card-image"><a href="https://life.ccel.org/contentment/" title="Contentment"><img width="360" height="240" src="https://life.ccel.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/leaf-macro-360x240.jpg" class="attachment-hestia-blog size-hestia-blog wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" /></a></div></div><div class= "col-ms-7 col-sm-7"><h6 class="category text-info"><a href="https://life.ccel.org/category/meditation/" title="View all posts in Meditation" rel="tag">Meditation</a> </h6><h2 class="card-title entry-title"><a href="https://life.ccel.org/contentment/" title="Contentment" rel="bookmark">Contentment</a></h2><div class="card-description entry-summary "><p>Read 1 Timothy 6:6-19. There is great gain in Godliness combined with contentment. (1 Tim. 6:6) See also Ruysbroeck, The Sparkling Stone Joy and sorrow. Pain and elation. Heaven and hell. Why is life like that? Why is one moment ablaze with glory, every cloud, every leaf, every person a<a class="moretag" href="https://life.ccel.org/contentment/"> Read more…</a></p> </div><div class="posted-by vcard author">By <a href="https://life.ccel.org/author/hplantin/" title="Harry Plantinga" class="url"><b class="author-name fn">Harry Plantinga</b></a>, <a href="https://life.ccel.org/contentment/"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2019-09-24T14:00:18-04:00" content="2019-09-24">5 years</time><time class="updated hestia-hidden" datetime="2020-07-22T08:47:15-04:00">2019-09-24</time> ago </a></div></div></div></article><article id="post-372" class="card card-blog card-plain post-372 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-meditation tag-bkg-double-mindedness tag-life-spiritual tag-bkg-spiritual-freedom tag-bkg-st-john-of-ruysbroeck"><div class="row "><div class="col-ms-5 col-sm-5"><div class="card-image"><a href="https://life.ccel.org/spiritual-freedom/" title="Spiritual freedom"><img width="360" height="240" src="https://life.ccel.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/brian-erickson-XFneC_rHR48-unsplash-1-360x240.jpg" class="attachment-hestia-blog size-hestia-blog wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" /></a></div></div><div class= "col-ms-7 col-sm-7"><h6 class="category text-info"><a href="https://life.ccel.org/category/meditation/" title="View all posts in Meditation" rel="tag">Meditation</a> </h6><h2 class="card-title entry-title"><a href="https://life.ccel.org/spiritual-freedom/" title="Spiritual freedom" rel="bookmark">Spiritual freedom</a></h2><div class="card-description entry-summary "><p>Read Luke 16:1-13. Do you like to run? Do you love to get out there, pound the pavement, feel the wind in your hair, see the world flow by, breathe the fresh air, sweat away the stress of the day? Me neither. I know someone who doesn鈥檛 like to run.<a class="moretag" href="https://life.ccel.org/spiritual-freedom/"> Read more…</a></p> </div><div class="posted-by vcard author">By <a href="https://life.ccel.org/author/hplantin/" title="Harry Plantinga" class="url"><b class="author-name fn">Harry Plantinga</b></a>, <a href="https://life.ccel.org/spiritual-freedom/"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2019-09-19T06:10:50-04:00" content="2019-09-19">5 years</time><time class="updated hestia-hidden" datetime="2020-07-22T08:47:56-04:00">2019-09-19</time> ago </a></div></div></div></article><article id="post-361" class="card card-blog card-plain post-361 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-meditation tag-bkg-images tag-life-spiritual tag-bkg-st-john-of-ruysbroeck"><div class="row "><div class="col-ms-5 col-sm-5"><div class="card-image"><a href="https://life.ccel.org/worship-without-images/" title="Worship without images"><img width="360" height="240" src="https://life.ccel.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/van_Dyck-360x240.jpg" class="attachment-hestia-blog size-hestia-blog wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" /></a></div></div><div class= "col-ms-7 col-sm-7"><h6 class="category text-info"><a href="https://life.ccel.org/category/meditation/" title="View all posts in Meditation" rel="tag">Meditation</a> </h6><h2 class="card-title entry-title"><a href="https://life.ccel.org/worship-without-images/" title="Worship without images" rel="bookmark">Worship without images</a></h2><div class="card-description entry-summary "><p>In the 14th century, when Ruysbroeck lived, there was no doubt a great deal of illiteracy, especially if that is understood to mean the inability to read and write Latin, the language of the church. Therefore images and rituals were a significant component in worship. Churches had stained glass windows<a class="moretag" href="https://life.ccel.org/worship-without-images/"> Read more…</a></p> </div><div class="posted-by vcard author">By <a href="https://life.ccel.org/author/hplantin/" title="Harry Plantinga" class="url"><b class="author-name fn">Harry Plantinga</b></a>, <a href="https://life.ccel.org/worship-without-images/"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2019-09-11T06:35:49-04:00" content="2019-09-11">5 years</time><time class="updated hestia-hidden" datetime="2019-11-04T16:42:20-05:00">2019-09-11</time> ago </a></div></div></div></article><article id="post-353" class="card card-blog card-plain post-353 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-meditation tag-bkg-detachment tag-bkg-st-john-of-ruysbroeck"><div class="row "><div class="col-ms-5 col-sm-5"><div class="card-image"><a href="https://life.ccel.org/hate-your-family/" title="Hate your family?"><img width="360" height="240" src="https://life.ccel.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/boulder-360x240.jpg" class="attachment-hestia-blog size-hestia-blog wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" /></a></div></div><div class= "col-ms-7 col-sm-7"><h6 class="category text-info"><a href="https://life.ccel.org/category/meditation/" title="View all posts in Meditation" rel="tag">Meditation</a> </h6><h2 class="card-title entry-title"><a href="https://life.ccel.org/hate-your-family/" title="Hate your family?" rel="bookmark">Hate your family?</a></h2><div class="card-description entry-summary "><p>Read Luke 14:25-33. Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple. (Luke 14:26) So therefore, none of you can become my disciple if you do not give up all your possessions. 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