Dale Cresap's blog

Most people do not examine their faults because it is an unpleasant experience. Others examine their faults for the purpose of condemning themselves.

Have you ever heard of ‘killing time’? Have you ever done it? This concept is not in principle consistent with the abundant life I offer you. It is no blessing to have too much idle time on your hands.

Do you live with a strong sense of the spiritual reality of everything you encounter? Even believers are quick to divide the world between the spiritual and the secular, and most things end up in the secular realm. Have I not made all these things?

Do you think that someone’s words are a true indicator of their heart? By your words you shall be justified or condemned. Yet thoughts precede words and are a more certain measure.

My word says that I send rain and sun on the just and on the unjust. Do you think of sun as good and rain as bad and interpret this to mean that there is joy and sorrow in the life of believer and unbeliever alike?

If someone comes to you in distress to share their troubles with you they often complain about some person who has wronged them. If you decline to enter into unrighteous judgment against this person are you accused of being uncaring?

Debt can be a form of bondage but I would have you to be free and unencumbered, owing no man anything but your debt of love.

Has your mind ever wandered in daydreams? This is a means of escape, a way to disengage and be absent in mind even as you are present in body.

Have you ever heard stories of kidnapped children? These are heart-rending and inevitably traumatic for the children, but no matter how much they have suffered, the parents always want them back.

Do you look for satisfaction in everything you do? If you are hungry you can eat until you are satisfied, and this is a good place to stop, but not everyone does. There are many areas of your life in which the right amount is necessary and beneficial but to continue is detrimental.