Christianity, Scholarship, Service
Sometimes the refrain of lament-to-praise feels like whiplash, like a contradiction. To those unfamiliar with it, it undoubtedly reads that way. And yet it’s the walk of faith: the sometimes-grim or sorrowful recognition of what feelings exist, the acknowledgment of one’s circumstances, paired with the resolution that God is who God is. [Click title to read more.]
Your suffering and your hurt won't go on and on without end. The pain has an end date. [Click title to read more.]
When you stand before the great wide open, anything and everything seems possible. It's less scary than I imagined it would be. [Click title to read more.]
We can become consumed with hedges, and with being protected. But sometimes that's not what's best for us. [Click title to read more.]
The thing is, when we're in the storms - or alongside them - it's easy to over-value our own judgment and to under-value the judgment of those who know best. [Click title to read more.]
Our response to closed doors in our lives gives a lot away about what we prioritize. It's time to change the way we think about them. [Click title to read more.]
What strikes me the most reading the stories of the Bible's vow-breakers is that our arrogance often goes much deeper than we think: we really do believe we know ourselves better than God does. [Click title to read more.]
