If faith is a fire, we all go through seasons when the flames sputter and the embers begin to dim. A scripture like this one in Proverbs serves as a starter log in our dying fire.
Tag: hope
Friend, we live in a fallen world with fallen people. Seed will be spilled. Dreams will shatter. We will hurt. But in that hurt we always, always have a choice.
‘What If’ is a query grief insists upon. Mary and Martha each felt it’s provocation and so will we.
“You know what I long for, Lord; You hear my every sigh.” (Psalm 6:3 NLT) I cried a little last night. My facebook feed was filled with the cherubic faces of my younger friends’ children and my older friends’ grandchildren in costumes and candy-laden. I…
Dissatisfaction is the universal lens fitted for humanity at the fall. Awakening to the less conspicuous gifts of everyday life requires rote repetition. We transform our negativity bias to a to a gratitude bias one thought at a time, intentionally searching out the best and celebrating it’s improbable presence in our fallen world.
A believer’s assurance about the afterlife in the face of death is their last witness on earth.
We read Simon’s name amidst the details of the alabaster anointing and we realize that our own healing is merely a footnote in the far-grander story of who Jesus is.
My relationship with my spouse is a living entity: subject to change, entropy, disease and death. It will never be perfect because it is a covenant between two fallen people still learning to cooperate with the sanctification process. Maintaining a healthy marriage will always require work: attention, intention and prayer. Even with proper care and feeding, marriage is still often tarnished and fraught with extenuating circumstances – the clouds and inclusions of a life lived together.
“When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dreamed. Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.” The Lord has done…
“I gave you empty stomaches in every city and lack of bread in every town, yet you have not returned to Me.” (Amos 4:6 NIV) If I am understanding Amos correctly, the people of God loved to worship; they adored the rituals and the routines.…