The joy in coming into agreement with God's Word and will
"When you adjust, you are dead. If you adjust, you are done. But if you dare to stand, the world will adjust to you. I can promise you that. Not all will adjust to you, but at least some will. We are not going to be sheep running over the precipice because other dumb... Continue Reading →
"And about that time there arose a great commotion about the Way..." Acts 19:23 This chapter, if you've never read it is fascinating. There's a riot going down in Ephesus. Some translations call it a great disturbance, some a ruckus; regardless, the gospel was being preached in Ephesus and it was ruffling some feathers. A... Continue Reading →
I saw an Instagram post yesterday with a framed picture by a fireplace that read very simply "Fidelity to the Word of God and not to an outcome." The quote under it, from author Lore Ferguson Wilbert stuck with me all day: "I made it as a reminder for us and those who cross the... Continue Reading →
I'm re-reading some chapters of the book Uninvited by Lysa TerKeurst and was struck this morning by this paragraph in which she addresses our never-ending need to be filled, with something... anything... that satisfies our deepest longings. "If we grasp the full love of Christ, we won't grab at other things to fill us. Or if we... Continue Reading →
Photo courtesy: moxon.net This post is about how to act like a camel, so bear with me for a moment. Every once in awhile I come across a familiar verse and see it in a whole new way. There's this little section in my Bible they call "word wealth" and it aims to reveal the... Continue Reading →
Do you ever come up against people or arguments that are so one-sided, so determined to remain in their own four walls that you genuinely don't know whether it's worth it to fight or flee? I watched a fascinating video yesterday posted on the Sheologian's website about what happens almost weekly at an Arizona Planned Parenthood... Continue Reading →
"But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace." James 3:17 A few weeks ago, I was walking past my kitchen table and... Continue Reading →
"When the world says, "Oh, you're narrow," you say, "Maybe I am narrow, but the way is narrow, and the path to heaven isn't as broad as a 16-lane highway. You know why I am too narrow? I'm walking with my God." AW Tozer I'm going to go out on a limb here and say... Continue Reading →
"We want to matter to the people we think matter. We want the people we think matter to single us out. We want them to spend time with us. We want them to invite us in. We want in. Left on the wrong side of the door, we can regress into eighth grade versions of... Continue Reading →
"You are loved harder and longer and more urgently than the ending of any Jane Austen novel." Lisa Jo Baker, Never Unfriended This quote cracked me up. If you've ever read through or watched a Jane Austen story, you know for the most part, it all shakes out in the end. The tangled relationships somehow... Continue Reading →
Into the Foolishness of God 