From Will:
From the book “Tozer on the Holy Spirit”.
“We are becoming what we love. We are to a large degree the sum of our loves and we will of moral necessity grow into the image of what we love most; for love is among other things a creative affinity; it changes, molds, shapes, and transforms. It is without doubt the most powerful agent affecting human nature next to the direct action of the Holy Spirit of God within the soul.

From Will:
From the book “Alone with God” by Michael Warden.
It is possible to lose the Promised Land once it is gained, but in only one way – through idolatry. Idolatry is worshipping anything other than God. Such idols take many seductive forms – family, career, entertainment, comfort, money, pleasure, education, and even religion. Pride itself is a very common form of idolatry – the worship of self.

Another email from Will:
Short story #2 entitled, “Distracted By Serving”.
“Not long ago, I spent 2 weeks teaching at a Christian college overseas. While traveling, I wrote out a prayer list that I determined to use every day. I was greatly enriched by keeping this commitment to pray, and I returned home confident that I would continue the practice. I didn’t! Soon I was so busy with church, family, and work that I prayed only in bits and snatches. I had lapsed into one of the most common snares of …

From Will:
Excerpt from “Pet Sin” by RBC ministry.
For 8 years, Sally had been the Romero family pet. She was only 1 foot long when they brought her home. But Sally grew and grew until eventually she reached a length of 11 feet and weighed 80 pounds. Then one day Sally, a Burmese python, turned on 15-year–old Derek, strangling the unsuspecting teenager until he died of suffocation. Police said that the snake was “quite aggressive, hissing, and reacting” when they arrived to investigate the young man’s death.

For thousands of years, people of have gazed into the night sky and drawn pictures, a sort of celestial connect-the-dots. These drawings, or constellations, constitute the twelve signs of the zodiac. Ancient cultures assigned names, characters and colorful stories to these constellations. But one interpretation of the zodiac holds that each sign actually may tell a piece of the story of Christ. Could the twelve signs of the zodiac be a stellar fifth gospel?
Take, for instance, the constellation Virgo. In Latin, Greek, and Arabic, Virgo means “virgin.” It contains 110 …