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I have been talking with friends who are in a major transition. The fact is, while we have been going through our own personal transitions, the whole world also entered a major transition. It adds a weightiness to what we are personally processing, and sometimes we get the two mixed up.
Don’t mistake confusion for unanswered questions. And just because you are restl...
Why does God allow evil? And doesn’t that make Him complicit to some degree? The better question: Why did God allow His beloved family free will, and why do we allow evil? Why have atrocities been committed down through history by every tribe and nation? Even the Earth groans under the weight of our bent, crooked nature and our sins.
If we put our hope in something ...
To remember God’s goodness is an act of worship. We start to actually experience His goodness and are being changed in the process. Remembering moves Him to do again in us, in our time, what He did in the past.
As a reminder to myself, I turned the words of the Psalmist into a prayer of gratitude (see Psalm 103 TPT paraphrased):
Father, every desire ...
The Psalmist writes to those who are living under the weight of deferred hope that speaks louder than God’s promise. The delay has been years. Doubts fill your mind, and you are pressed to give up the good fight of faith:
“Unless the Lord had helped me, I would soon have settled in the silence of the grave. I cried out, “I am slipping!” but your unfailing love, O L...
Of late, I have been watching videos describing the life of coal miners in Appalachia. It’s a secluded and isolated way of life. Some families lived in a “holler,” meaning “at the end of a road.” It is a simple, rugged life with its drawbacks.
But the people also possess the tools and skills needed to survive, even in a catastrophe. They live off the land’s produce...