Jesus is not a god that we can manipulate and mold. Christ is the true God, the one who is.
11/12/26
The most sober lesson we can learn from life’s caves is that all we have is a Person, one who never withers or distances himself from us, even though we are weak and languishing.
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11/13/26
Your freedom does not depend on how well you live it. It rests entirely in him.
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11/13/18
The Gospel is our freedom from sin. It is Christ in the mirror, Christ for me and for you.
11/12/18
The more I seek God on my own terms, the deeper I am gazing at my own navel.
11/08/18
The more that we hear the law, the more we recognize others as those who, like us, are torn and tattered by the wounds of sin and brokenness.
11/08/18
We take what we perceive to be freedom and turn it into a new credo, a new law, an idol to be lifted up and lived out.
11/06/18
We tell our children if they work hard and play by the rules, they’ll succeed in life. Jerks, cheaters, and thieves won’t. They’ll end up in the gutter. Or jail. Or worse.
11/05/18
The desire to go home—or to find the place where one truly belongs—is latent in every human being.
10/30/18
Consolation is the breath of life filling our lungs, hearts, and minds with the fresh, incorruptible air of the new creation.
10/29/18
I’ve had a lot of nasty things done to me in my 43 years of life. Many of which were done by church people while we were worshipping and serving Jesus together.
10/27/18
What do Habakkuk and Israel have? Nothing but the word of God. Nothing but the promise of God. Nothing but God himself. They have the vision that Yahweh gives, the words of hope he utters. And that, amazingly, is enough.
10/25/18
But there is something far more serious and important: being reconciled to our Father in Heaven.
10/22/18
It’s by no means an ivory-tower theological question. It’s as real as the weight we’ve lost from the stress of our divorce. As real as the bottle of antidepressants on our nightstand. We believe in him. We love him. But every voice inside us and every shred of evidence outside us points to his abandonment of us in our hour of deepest need.
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