The Terrifying, Roller-Coaster Moments of the Christian Life

The ramification of the prosperity gospel and some of its watered-down versions is a pervasive belief that the Christian walk will never have anything inherently difficult about it. We don't like to think that God might ask us to do something we dislike, or find unpleasant. [Click title to read more.]

The Abrupt Beauty Of The Psalms

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.]