I've been a Christian for most of my life. I've grown to the point that I assume - wrongly - that I am consulting God about most things, and submitting to God in most things. In reality, probably 50% of the time I'm making assumptions about what God could and should do, based on what I want to happen and what I believe should happen. [Click title to read more.]
Tag: God
Let’s Take The Confession of Sins Seriously
For a lot of us,the confession of sin isn't sobering at all. It's something we just sort of...do. Like showering. It is habit. It is flippant. As we go about it we lack, in some cases, a serious sense of shame, and acknowledge our sins in the same sort of way we acknowledge we bite our fingernails. [Click title to read more.]
Congratulations On Doing What You’re Supposed To Do
We tend to celebrate the bare minimum as being exceptional, without realizing that we've simply set the bar so low for ourselves that we've made the bare minimum look like an accomplishment when it's not. [Click title to read more.]
My First Ash Wednesday
This season, as we look forward to Easter, my desire is this: to hunger for holiness year-long, and to make love the outward adornment that sets me apart. [Click to read more.]
When God’s Love Is Invisible
There's a lot of what God does - and of what God does for us - that we don't know. And often we don't know that we don't know. [Click title to read more.]
Giving Up Our Right To Retribution
I'm struck by how anti-entitlement God's Word seems to be. Been wronged? Been hurt? Been harmed? Have a justifiable case to make against a person/group/corporation who's causing you trouble? If so, the Bible tells you to give up your right to vengeance. [Click title to read more.]
You Are The Window To Wonder In A Skeptical World
Most people look askance at the mere concept of miracles in general. Or angels. Or an afterlife. The idea that humans might be part of a bigger, broader story, that there is something epic and cosmic and important above and beyond us, has fallen into irrelevance beside the urgency of now. And that is why love matters. [Click title to read more.]
Our Understanding of God Should Always Be Evolving
If God looks precisely the same to you as He did the moment you became saved, it might be worthwhile to examine the depth of your relationship with Him. [Click title to read more.]
Tent Pegs and Opportunity
When we determine to ourselves that we are going to move forward in God's name or when we perceive that God has asked something of us, we must commit boldly and completely to whatever it is that we intend to do. [Click title to read more.]
Why The Church Must Make An Effort To Value Solitude With God
It's true that the Christian life is not always meant to be a solo affair. Teachers, pastors, fellow believers, even small groups: all of those things are a part of our faith community, and they can help us and grow us. But in elevating these, I fear that we dismiss what I perceive to be the fundamental necessity of individual solitude with God. [Click title to read more.]
Samaritan's Song 