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23 mins read|10/02/20Sin is driven by disordered love, and it is love in this sense that leads to all the pain and suffering in the world.
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14 mins read|08/24/20Prayer dares to call the impossible into reality. It trusts the One who can do all things to do impossible things. It rests its hope on God’s power and not man’s agency.
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22 mins read|07/13/20There is often no way forward for us without the prophetic lament, because such laments force out our honesty and resentment at the God who does not treat us as we expect to be treated.
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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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