January 2012
2 posts
Honeymoon Days of Israel
“I remember the devotion of your youth,
how as a bride you loved me
and followed me through the desert,
through a land not sown.” -Jeremiah 2:2
I was listening to an interesting sermon where the speaker Dr. Steve Lee describes this verse as God speaking about his honeymoon days with Israel. Though for Israel, wandering through the desert for 40 years may have been the most...
Pray for the victim who’s from our church, the attackers, our church, our community.
http://www.suntimes.com/10055237-417/brutal-bridgeport-beating-captured-on-youtube-video.html
I’m glad people from our community are stepping out to publicly identify these guys on the internet for the police to use. But it’s scary to see your newsfeed full of people talking about using that...
November 2011
1 post
"Morning by morning new mercies I see"
what if seeing his new mercies begins with allowing him to lead us to places where we are at his mercy
July 2011
1 post
Distance
“It makes us feel farther away from God”
This summer, I’ve been helping teach Sunday school for 3rd and 4th (and sometimes 6th) graders. As a follow up to our lesson, today I asked them “What is the consequence of sin?” As expected, i heard expected answers like ‘you get punished’, ‘you go to hell’, and ‘you go to jail/get in...
May 2011
1 post
So you want a king?
This is what the king who will reign over you will claim as his rights: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots. Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. He...
October 2010
2 posts
faith is
“being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see”
—
at the risk of discovering that hope and certainty have been misplaced
for the possibility that absence of sight leads to being swindled
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to consider the prize worth a thousand contingencies
and all that may be gained more than infinite loss
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faith is
wretchedness
In giving generously, I feel entitled to be reciprocated in appreciation. In receiving generously, I become accustomed toward expecting more generosity.
In being deprived, I become upset as if something long due has been withheld. In being avaricious, I lose sense of why anyone else should matter.
How is it that such distinct opposites should lead to the same wretched outcome?
May 2010
2 posts
one
“All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and flowers fall, because the breath of the LORD blows on them. isaiah 40:6-7
This week I’ve learned a lot about myself. I’ve learned about weaknesses that I was convinced I had grown out of more than half a decade ago. I have rediscovered fissures that I was confident would have...
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