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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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7 mins read|03/10/20What I have come to see is that while anyone can make a conscious decision to walk away from God or deny him, a person can’t accidentally lose his or her salvation.
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11 mins read|03/05/20When we pray, “Thy will be done,” we are praying a cosmic, grand and mighty prayer.
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17 mins read|02/25/20Sometimes we have to strain hard to hear words deeper than our hearts. Words not from inside, but outside. Words from God, not our own self-spun narratives.
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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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28 mins read|06/14/19Shame is shameful. That may seem obvious but ponder this observation from the authors of Scenes of Shame: “Shame, indeed, covers shame itself—it is shameful to express shame.”
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19 mins read|04/12/19Have you ever read the Old Testament book of Lamentations? It’s not one of those Bible books that tend to make it too often onto devotional lists, sermon schedules or motivational posters.
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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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18 mins read|09/18/18Can there be joy in obedience? That depends on if obedience if a free choice or the result of threats.
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11 mins read|08/01/18Life is certainly unfair. But in Christ, at least in part, we rejoice at such a notion. Grace, that great descriptor of God’s devotion, is a word that only finds its purpose, only exists at all, because it exists as a response to guilt.
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