Salvation

Navigating Life Under Christ's Sufficiency: A Review of The Jesus I Wish I Knew in High School

10/25/21

16 mins

By Valerie Thur

While the insights in each chapter are uniquely personal to the individual writers, the overarching theme is one of the sufficiency of Christ.
Christ's Words of Comfort: John 16:33

04/09/21

15 mins

By Valerie Thur

The cross is not some mystic metaphor for the change we must undergo before our self-realization, but the earth-shattering event that changed the course of eternity.
To Us a Child is Born: Everlasting Father

12/15/20

12 mins

By Valerie Thur

The well-meaning advice “time heals all wounds” is offensively false when we confront the overwhelming evidence that the constants in our lives are death, taxes, and suffering.
The End is in Sight

12/26/19

15 mins

By Valerie Thur

We think that if we are good enough, brave enough, or at least if we try hard enough, we will be someone who can be both fully known and fully loved.
Three Words and the Truth

07/08/19

14 mins

By Valerie Thur

“I love you” is great, as long as whatever commitment I may or may not be intimating is mutually beneficial and causes the least amount of emotional strain to me.
The House Who Built Us

11/05/18

13 mins

By Valerie Thur

The desire to go home—or to find the place where one truly belongs—is latent in every human being.
What Writer’s Block Tells us About the Kingdom of God

07/30/18

12 mins

By Valerie Thur

Writer’s Block, however, entertains no such fantasies. It goes straight for my ego’s jugular and pounds home the fact that I’m not good enough.
Of Werewolves and Worldviews

04/20/18

11 mins

By Valerie Thur

We are called to proclaim the life, death, and resurrection of the Answer incarnate, Jesus Christ, and in love respond to the questions that inevitably arise against it.

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