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11 mins read|06/01/23When we forget that we live by promise, that's when the danger tends to creep in. Because failing to embrace promise means we usually fall back into notions of luck, or even worse--into works.
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22 mins read|10/13/22Logos theology is a theology of presence without division. It is a way of unification, of which the incarnation is the greatest visible example.
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11 mins read|03/01/21Nostalgia is a looter who impoverishes us of the truth that God is in our midst right now.
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7 mins read|06/30/20When we are hurt, we cry out to God. But sometimes when the hurt gets really intense, our lament turns to complaint. Not only is this normal, but almost every lament in scripture contains a complaint.
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11 mins read|05/26/20God will keep his promises, but how he keeps them is often quite surprising.
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7 mins read|05/04/20How we feel is so often conditioned upon what we are experiencing. Faith grabs hold of something outside our experience, something objective and true that is not changed by circumstance.
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21 mins read|07/19/19God is always better than your imaginings. God is greater than your thoughts about God!
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20 mins read|02/11/19The prophet Jonah longed for one thing: to see the Assyrian city of Nineveh utterly destroyed by the wrath of God. His wish eventually came true
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16 mins read|11/15/18What does it mean to be a child of God and to carry his image? This is a theological question, but it is a question necessary for our self-understanding
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15 mins read|07/18/17One of my favorite things to do in the summer is read out under the shade of my backyard tree. There, I have a reclining chair and small little side table.
