Dale Cresap's blog

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? 

Do you like to get gifts? Isn’t this more pleasant than having to shop and spend your own money on something for yourself? People who love you can buy for you the same things you can buy for yourself, but I give you gifts that are not available for purchase.

Have you ever heard of someone exceeding their usual level of authority in a crisis to intervene effectively to avoid disaster? They are generally recognized as heroes for being bold and decisive when it was necessary to save the day. In an emergency you can assume the authority you need to get the job done.

Are you determined to never give up if you are right? Do you consider this to be a great virtue? I could have made a strong case for my innocence, but I held my peace when I was on trial for my life.

Do you say that seeing is believing and trust only what you see? Yet you know that the train tracks remain the same distance apart even though they appear to converge in the distance.