Be wary of reading the tea leaves of your circumstances to deduce how God feels about you. [Click title to read more.]
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Tag: suffering
There Is An Endpoint To Your Suffering
Your suffering and your hurt won't go on and on without end. The pain has an end date. [Click title to read more.]
The Banner Year: Or, God’s Definition of Significance
I thought God's promise that this would be a banner year would translate to success and opportunity. It hasn't, at least not yet, and that may be even better - whether it's what I wanted or not. [Click title to read more.]
When All You Hear Is Silence
There is a point in the life of every believer where everything is going wrong, on fire, or is absolutely confusing and shattering and - worst of all - you cannot sense God in any of it. [Click title to read more.]
When Confidence Looks Like Callousness
I don't think we often realize it, but sometimes Christian confidence expressed in the wrong way can look a lot like Christian callousness - even when it's well-meaning. And compassion is the only way to leaven it. [Click title to read more.]
Holy Hedges
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.]
Alongside The Storm
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.]
