{"query": "Devotional: The One Door", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_0ef59894726c", "title": "Devotional: The One Door", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Stillness before God allows us to hear His voice. Jesus is the only way, the only door, and His sacrifice alone makes us right with the Father.\n\nWhen we recognize this, our trust deepens. We live as l"}, {"id": "card_n_0ae03ccbda7e", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §83: Then the Interpreter took him, and led him up towards the door of the palace; and behol...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Then the Interpreter took him, and led him up towards the door of the palace; and behold, at the door stood a great company of men, as desirous to go in; but durst not. There also sat a man at a littl"}, {"id": "card_n_98fd35846353", "title": "John 10", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. “Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.\n2. But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of th"}, {"id": "card_n_1b6fc0a79c10", "title": "Ignatius to the Magnesians VII", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "As therefore the Lord did nothing without the Father, being united to Him, neither by Himself nor by the apostles, so neither do ye anything without the bishop and presbyters. Neither endeavour that a"}, {"id": "card_n_a1e237176346", "title": "Devotional: Prayer: Lord, Make Me a Tool Worn to Your Hand", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "God what is next for me? I look for your light. I can’t see the way. Please make my way known. I do not want to spend my life in the wilderness. I seek your face.\n\nOpen the door to my next chapter O’ "}, {"id": "card_n_d7b031a240cf", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §292: Well, on Saturday, about midnight, they began to pray, and continued in prayer till alm...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Well, on Saturday, about midnight, they began to pray, and continued in prayer till almost break of day. Now a little before it was day, good Christian, as one half amazed, brake out in passionate spe"}, {"id": "card_n_569c4e416971", "title": "Devotional: God in Three Persons: A Reflection on Wholeness", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "God the Father represents the Mind, Jesus the Son the Body, and the Holy Spirit the Spirit. Humans are made in God’s image — mind, body, and spirit — and should cultivate all three.\n\nTo neglect one is"}, {"id": "card_n_82c6ff8858b3", "title": "Devotional: The Threat of Self", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The most dangerous part of this path for me is the threat of self. It is so easy to find yourself wise. To believe that any of this is the result of self.\n\nThe only thing to do is die to self. Give co"}, {"id": "card_n_234d9306cebe", "title": "Devotional: Belief Statement on Sin, Salvation, and Homosexuality", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Salvation comes before behavior change; the Holy Spirit begins transformation after salvation, which may take time. The Church should be open to that process but maintain standards for leadership — no"}, {"id": "card_n_137e090d24e8", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_xxxiii: Ever consider and think upon the world as being but one living substance, and...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Ever consider and think upon the world as being but one living substance, and having but one soul, and how all things in the world, are terminated into one sensitive power; and are done by one general"}, {"id": "card_n_53c81d366707", "title": "The Chalcedonian Definition", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Following the holy fathers, we all with one accord teach men to acknowledge one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, at once complete in Godhead and complete in manhood, truly God and truly man, c"}, {"id": "card_n_a319c7aa177c", "title": "Easton: Nazarite", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. form Nazirite), the name of such Israelites as took on them the vow prescribed in Num. 6:2-21. The word denotes generally one who is separated from others and consecrated to God. Although there "}, {"id": "card_n_462dd2ad643c", "title": "Devotional: Insight: The Ephraim Gate", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Be careful which gates you open. God may be warning you to close off partnerships, habits, or voices that look like allies but are walking in rebellion. If you don't close the gate when He says to — i"}, {"id": "card_n_16e019f825c8", "title": "Easton: Adullam", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the royal cities of the Canaanites, now ‘Aid-el-ma (Josh. 12:15; 15:35). It stood on the old Roman road in the valley of Elah (q.v.), which was the scene of David’s memorable victory over Golia"}, {"id": "card_n_373d58ed9ff8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_024: Let them no more say then, when they perceive two conflicting wills in one ma...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Let them no more say then, when they perceive two conflicting wills in one man, that the conflict is between two contrary souls, of two contrary substances, from two contrary principles, one good, and"}, {"id": "card_n_47ef7cadb694", "title": "Devotional: Jiu-Jitsu and Faith: A Parable", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Jiu-jitsu is like faith. You start out clumsy, unable to see the traps, vulnerable at every turn. With time and guidance, you begin to recognize the snares and the escapes. You find peace in the chaos"}, {"id": "card_n_0eb13fc4e133", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_01_03: Happy is the man whom Truth by itself doth teach, not by figures and transien...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Happy is the man whom Truth by itself doth teach, not by figures and transient words, but as it is in itself.(1) Our own judgment and feelings often deceive us, and we discern but little of the truth."}, {"id": "card_n_30088c59ad6d", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_12_xxiii: There is but one light of the sun, though it be intercepted by walls and moun...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There is but one light of the sun, though it be intercepted by walls and mountains, and other thousand objects. There is but one common substance of the whole world, though it be concluded and restrai"}, {"id": "card_n_a33a1eefd306", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §302: Then I saw in my dream, that the Shepherds had them to another place, in a bottom, wher...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Then I saw in my dream, that the Shepherds had them to another place, in a bottom, where was a door in the side of a hill, and they opened the door, and bid them look in. They looked in, therefore, an"}, {"id": "card_n_3f0cb00773d5", "title": "Revelation 3:20", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with me."}]}