Suffering, Part 3 If you’ve coasted through life with no trials, you are rare. Most of life is beset with trial, because this is a fallen world. People sicken and die. Friends betray us. Families break apart. Tragedies come. Some …
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What is Faith? Part 2 In the Christian life, self-reliance defeats us. Yet this trait is one we instill in our children and strive for as autonomous adults. We want our kids to be strong and able to take care …
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What is Faith? Part 1 This is a world where babies are born with deformities, children suffer aggressive brain cancer, car accidents rob us of our loved ones, religious violence spreads through action and reaction, and everyone we love dies. …
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So far this new year, I’ve been talking about writing, because there are exciting goals to achieve! But we can only achieve them if we, writer and readers, work together! This is now a publishing industry fact. In the first …
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(This post was written in the early years of my autoimmune disease, while I was dreadfully sick, but we had no answers as to what was causing my suffering.) Lord, my heart grew heavy and calloused during the holy season …
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(This post was penned four years ago. I’d been sick for about fifteen months, and we still had no idea what was wrong with me. For all of you chronic illness sufferers, I am one of you. I know how …
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The hope of good news brings transformation. Each week I see this in the eyes of the women I serve in prison. When they – like you and like me – hear and believe the gospel, they are transformed by …
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Recently I wrote of the dark days of feeling awful for month after month with no hope of a clear diagnosis and no possibility of treatment. Then I received a diagnosis: Fibromyalgia. Though this is an often misunderstood disorder and is …
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I wanted a peaceful and quiet life. I didn’t set out to pioneer. I didn’t want to be a pilgrim, but I should have known it would happen. It’s in my blood. I am descended from pioneers of all types: …
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Inside all of us is a desire for beauty. We crave the magnificent view of faraway mountains, the warmth of a crackling fire, the gorgeous sunset over a crystal clear lake. Our hearts yearn for this. We want this to …
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