“I cry aloud to the Lord; I lift up my voice to the Lord for mercy. I pour out before Him my complaint; before Him I tell my trouble.” (Psalm 142:1-2 NIV) Rob’s preaching on rejection today, and I can’t help but wish we weren’t…
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“Trust in Him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to Him, for God is our refuge.” (Psalm 62:8 NIV) Thankfully, our trust is not limited to our stretches of understanding. Our trust is ongoing; crucial to success in our walk with God.…
My devotional space faces east and it is amazing to rise each morning and watch the Lord knit together a new day. It is typically still inky black outside my window when I first open the scriptures, but pretty soon the eastern sky begins to lighten by degrees. The shadows gather in the corners until they will finally slink away entirely. The black of night fades away to blue and eventually brightens altogether as pink and orange and yellow pour forth. Eventually the sunrise overtakes the nightfall altogether.
“After the dead are raised up, we’re past the marriage business. As it is with angels now, all our ecstasies and intimacies will be with God.” (Mark 12:24 MSG) If marriage is, in fact, a limited engagement, how do we steward it well? Show up.…
I keep coming back to one question. It’s a hard question, but it might legitimately be a God question. It’s something for us to prayerfully consider as we are perched here on Monday morning, struggling to set out into holy week.
How do we rob God?
We, as wealthy Americans, are drinking from a fire hose of affluence, entertainment and options. We have so drowned ourselves in lesser affections and appetites that we don’t even feel the thirst for God in our own frames. We might go our entire lives without ever truly awakening to our deepest need.
Healthy, sustained relationships flow in forgiveness, in both the giving and the receiving, alike.
t’s always alarming to me how when someone important passes away, the sun still rises, the coffee still brews, the the laws of physics hold steady and the world moves on even without our loved one in it. We have gone still in grief and shock but everything and everyone around us marches forward as though their life meant so very little in the grand scheme of things.
“In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent His only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.” (1 John 4:9 ESV) Consider the word manifest: plain, open, clearly visible to the eye or obvious to…
A heart committed to obedience ultimately restores us. Conversely, a heart committed to disobedience destroys us.