God is the constant in the topography of our shifting world. When the landmarks disappear, when what we know has been rendered foreign to us, He will remain the same. [Click title to read more.]
One of the blessings of growing older in Christ has been the simple knowledge that I can only control so much. [Click title to read more.]
In May of 2017 in a garden-variety suburb in a garden-variety state in America, a country which contains 321 million people, in a world which contains around 7 billion people, a starling died in a dryer vent and God noticed. His authority and His power do not render Him distant even from the smallest details. [Click title to read more.]
In all honesty, too many of us are hothouse believers: Christians who only fully express their holy nature when the circumstances and the moment and their feelings are right. [Click title to read more.]
It’s at times like these that I understand why some people struggle to believe the Bible, and to believe God. I don’t think it’s just because of innate skepticism or because they can’t bring themselves to believe in what they perceive to be myths; I think they’re afraid it’s too good to be true. [Click title to read more.]
It’s true that sometimes God may direct us here or there to do a particular thing and give us awareness of that. But I also think that more often than not God intends to use our normal and our very unremarkable lives – often when we’re not looking or paying attention – to change the world. [Click title to read more.]
Christians could take a few lessons from those tenacious little orioles, and one of them is this: it’s okay to try something absurd. Do the thing that doesn’t seem like it will work, but that you feel called nonetheless to do. Aim higher than reason allows. [Click title to read more.]
Thanks to our technology and our desires, we live isolated and insulated from God’s creation, and in that way of living, we miss something. [Click title to read more.]
I am a “head person.” By that, I mean I’m always thinking or daydreaming or pondering or analyzing or wondering. It’s just how I am, but by virtue of being that way I’m not always present in the moment or focused on what’s happening around me. Taking photographs, however, forces me out of my head and into the moment.
