Our life begins with a countdown. We don’t know how long, but one day we will die. Each day our body changes as it moves us unrelentlessly toward that day of reckoning, first growth and the upward climb and then …
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My study through Isaiah these past two years challenges my comfortable theology. I now understand so much more about the heart of God. We see it clearly in the radical statements Jesus made, such as his terrifying parable of the …
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To interact with this post on Friday, November 2, click here. When I began editing the manuscript, I was exhilarated. But, as I worked, discouragement grew and enlarged. I began to compare how much I could accomplish when I first …
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Part 5 I sallied forth to visit my parents this past week. Travel didn’t used to be a big deal. I was raised in a road-trip-taking family. We drove all night, listening to late night radio. We hiked over the …
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Part 2 Coming face to face with our true selves isn’t pretty. We prefer the false constructs we’ve erected in our minds. We believe we’re actually doing all the things we know we should. Rarely is that the entire picture. …
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I don’t know about you, but I want my days to be peaceful and my sleep to be sweet. I long for tranquil vacations on sunny beaches and predictable routines that are never altered, unless I control the alteration. I …
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“God comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us.” (2 Corinthians 1:4 NLT). This is my story. God uses …
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To become compassionate and wise people, we must suffer. Our suffering transforms us. In the lives of believers, God promises to work everything together for good, using it to shape us more into Christ’s image and to turn us into …
Continue Reading →We long to be known. In fact, we yearn for someone to understand, to be on the same page, to “get” us. This is the desire of our hearts. The aching wound of estrangement from others often drags us down. …
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