Salil over at JesusBranded.com asks Where are you going? Good question. I’m asking that one myself. I think faith is oftentimes equal parts awesome and infuriating. I wonder if it’s a case where you can’t have one without the other.
I have a new-found appreciation for the idea of a weekly Sabbath day. I haven’t had a day to spend at home in peace and quiet, free from distractions, for probably a month or more! I’m not complaining, mind you — lots of wonderful and exciting things have been going on, and I had anticipated [...]
I have a couple of different blog series on the backburner, and I intend to get both of them going again shortly, but first I just wanted to air some thoughts I’ve had in my head lately. Basically, this is the gist of them:
When it comes to life planning, I suck.
And:
All the best things in [...]
I’m not quite up to my usual energy levels after last week’s illness, but I know I promised I’d embark on a series about the “oil of gladness” mentioned in Psalm 45:7 and Isaiah 61:3, so I’ll try to muddle my way through the first post and get the ball rolling!
One of the things I’m [...]
I want to talk about something I discovered about myself a while back. After several months of mounting frustration and heartache over faltering projects and withering plans (this has been a rather difficult year in many ways), I was just about at my wits end when I realized something. I think God probably nudged me [...]
Welcome to Putting it All Together, the conclusion of a series entitled God is the Ultimate Travel Agent. In this day and age, I think one of the most significant questions that many people face is simply this: for what purpose am I alive and how can I make a real difference? The first step [...]
Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching. Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophecy when the council of elders laid their hands on you. Practice these things, devote yourself to them, so that all may see your progress.
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“For a people shall dwell in Zion, in Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry. As soon as he hears it, he answers you. And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will [...]
Kris Vallotton of Bethel Church said something in a sermon I heard a while back that seared its way into my brain and has been really helpful for keeping me grounded in God’s eternal perspective. It went something like this: “don’t live by your circumstances, live by your stances.” Kris likes to say things in [...]
Immanuel — God with us — is the Biblical revelation that in Christ we have a traveling companion on our journey Who is with us wherever we go. We had a good run with that aspect of the Christian faith in the last installment of this series, but this time, I would like to diverge [...]
