As we remember the fulfillment of the best promise in human history – the birth of Christ, God in human flesh come to redeem us, I have the privilege of reviewing a book that speaks into the darkness of human …
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It’s our brokenness that drives us into Christ’s arms. Without an awareness of how broken we are, we wouldn’t think we needed Him, and we would be lost, without the constant comfort of His friendship and His promise of heaven. …
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This is what an autoimmune disease does. It wrecks our bodies and minds, crushing the jar of clay into fractured shards or pounding the wet clay into a shapeless lump. We are destroyed. This is the physical reality, the daily …
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I am broken. So are you. The older we grow, the more we realize it. We come into the world reeling from the violence of our births and equipped with a sinful nature, which begins destroying us before we’re even …
Continue Reading →I wish personal growth was easier, but it’s prolonged and painful. God pursues me, calling me into a more intimate relationship, but I keep assuming that means I must then do something. I am Martha. Self-help, self-reliance, and self-effort are so …
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The Backstory Yahweh is not a puny handwringing god. Rather, He is “the One forming light and creating darkness, causing well-being and creating calamity” (Isaiah 45:7a NASB). He is the Lord who does these things. He does them for our …
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Then Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped himself with it as he sat among the ashes. His wife said to him, “Are you still maintaining your integrity? Curse God and die!” He replied, “You are talking like …
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Autoimmune disorders are strange, because every single case is unique. Why? Because each human being is unique. Whenever a human body attacks itself, it does so in a peculiar way. Because of this, there is no specific test that can …
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Bloggers typically create content ahead of time. I just wanted you to know this upfront, so you’re not overly concerned about me today. I wrote this three weeks ago. I don’t handle sickness well. I just confessed this to a …
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The older I grow, the more self aware I become. The more self aware, the more broken I realize I am. The more broken, the more astonished I am by Jesus and His deep and abiding love for me. That …
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