Andy Hoffman

This week’s featured book: The Upper Room Disciplines 2027 by   Today’s Reflection The days of darkness may persist. This is when we look for rainbows, for reminders of past blessings, for glimpses of light in those around us. This is when we gather, cry out for mercy, ask not to be put to shame,

This week’s featured book: The Upper Room Disciplines 2027 by   Today’s Reflection Planet Earth is just one of billions and billions of planets spinning their way through an even more immense universe. To think that the Creator of all this knows us, thinks of us, cares for us, loves us! —Michael Jackson, The Upper

This week’s featured book: Writings of Augustine by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection God gives you space for correction, but you love the delay of judgement more than the amendment of your ways. Have you been bad yesterday? Today be good. Have you gone on in wickedness today? At any rate change tomorrow. —Augustine,

This week’s featured book: Writings of Augustine by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection Never is anything done by you that God does not do in you. Sometimes, indeed, God does in you what is not done by you. But never is anything done by you if God does not do it in you. —Augustine,

This week’s featured book: Writings of Augustine by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection There are three things that go to complete sin: the suggestion of, the taking pleasure in, and the consenting to. . . . Once all this has taken place, we are driven forth, as it were, from paradise into death. —Augustine,

This week’s featured book: Writings of Augustine by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection Look, you were internal, and I external. And I looked for you in external things. Unlovely, I rushed thoughtlessly among the things of beauty you made. You were with me, but I was not with you. —Augustine, edited by Keith Beasley-Topliffe,

This week’s featured book: Writings of Augustine by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection The depths of our conscience are naked to your eyes. What in me could be hidden from you even if I were unwilling to confess to you? I might be able to hide you from myself, but not myself from you.

This week’s featured book: Writings of Augustine by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection Have you—although present everywhere—cast our misery far away from you? You rest in yourself, but we are disquieted with various trials. Yet unless our weeping reached your ears, we would have no hope —Augustine, edited by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, The Upper Room

This week’s featured book: Writings of Augustine by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection My soul’s house is cramped. Expand it, so that you may enter in. It is in ruins. Restore it. It must offend your eyes. I confess and know it, but who will cleanse it? —Augustine, edited by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, The Upper

This week’s featured book: A House of Prayer by Thomas R. Steagald   Today’s Reflection That kind of divisiveness, anger, brokenness, those fragmentations and estrangements, proves and fully demonstrates our sin. And when shall God end such fragmentation? . . . The Table of course—for Christ invites all to his Table. —Thomas R. Steagald, A