Dale Cresap's blog

You leave footprints wherever you walk. If you are in snow or fresh tilled earth the footprints are obvious, but they are present even on hard paved surfaces even if they are not as easily detectable. In a greater sense you leave footprints in life as well, whether you mean to or not.

Do you wait until you are in a crisis to turn to me and seek me? Do you find that even after neglecting your daily spiritual life that I am still there to answer when you call on me?

I tell you to think on things that are pure and lovely. Do you think it is impossible for thoughts to be sins, unless they result in action? Where is it that you meet with me?

Do you know what the best kept secret is? No one in the world knows when I will return. The Father revealed all things to me, but I told my own disciples that of that time no one knew, not even the Son, but the Father only.

I have promised you that my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Does this agree with your own experience? Have you ever borne burdens that are onerous and oppressive? Perhaps they were not given by me.

Do you think of me as being the light of the world? But I spoke to an audience of my followers and said, ‘you are the light of the world’. Are you uncomfortable with this concept?

Do you hear churches and fellow believers talk about how to make the gospel message relevant to this generation? This is the wrong question to ask.

Do you keep valuable things in a safe place? What is more valuable to you than water? Yet most people do not need to keep water on hand because they are fortunate enough to have water on tap.

Modern technology has given you a source of information that is easily accessible and seemingly inexhaustible. Everyone else has the same resource. The conventional wisdom of the ages is that knowledge and information are sources of power.

If you faced an enormous task that you could not complete by yourself, would you want to choose the people to assist, to have a hand-picked team?