How the truths of Scripture change the way I live
Holiness is beautiful. Its counterfeits are odious, but their standards are humanly attainable. So we write our rules and set ourselves to keeping them. We make our do’s and don’t lists and check them off…and are no more holy, and maybe a little more smug, when we’re through. I’ve been meditating, talking and reading about […]
Last week I was looking at things that rouse God’s wrath, things written about the Israelites in the desert, written to be an example and warning to us so that we don’t miss out on God’s best for us (I Cor.10). Moses thought it crucial for the people to remember the stubborn bent of their […]
We’re forever wanting when we’re not worshiping. Have you noticed? We were made for something more than this world can afford. It offers a lot–pleasure, applause, glamour, always some form of what we crave. But it delivers nothing worth having, nothing that lasts. Nothing that actually satisfies the craving of our hearts. Oh there’s plenty […]
More ideas for keeping a soft heart…. with notes from A Praying Life What do you do with the disconnect between the way you’ve dreamed that life would be, and the hard, cold, (often lonely) realities of life as it is? Whether you’re a young adult moving into the unknown of ‘what next?’ after years […]
Image by Violeta Dabija It’s a big bad world out there for defenseless sheep. There are wolves in the woods. (There are even wolves in the sheep pen, posing as sheep!) Bad things happen without explanation or ‘just’ cause. Good people become jaded and use positions of influence to serve their own ends… If you […]