“One of the main reasons God doesn’t always answer us immediately is that waiting is God’s crucible of transformation. Waiting is how God gets at the idols of our heart. Waiting addresses the things we think we need besides God …
Read more →“One of the main reasons God doesn’t always answer us immediately is that waiting is God’s crucible of transformation. Waiting is how God gets at the idols of our heart. Waiting addresses the things we think we need besides God …
Read more →…We cannot talk about sin for very long without being drawn into doxology. Were it not for the mercy of God surrounding us, we would have no perspective from which to view sin, for we would be entirely subject to …
Read more →Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and …
Read more →I love to wait. It’s one of my favorite things to do. I choose the slowest lane while driving and the longest line when shopping. I never mind when my doctor is an hour late or my food never arrives. …
Read more →Our Father in heaven, hallowed be thy name.Thy kingdom come, thy will be done,On earth as it is in heaven.Give us this day, our daily bread,And forgive us our sins,As we forgive those who have sinned against us.Lead us not …
Read more →Under the spiritual practices tab I wrote about Lectio Divina, which is a way of reading Scripture that goes beyond knowing about the Scripture to receiving it “into our bones” through reading and reflection. One way to approach this is …
Read more →The grace of God prepares the way for the confession of sin, is present in the confession, and even before the confession has been made, has already worked the restoration of which the confession is not the cause but the …
Read more →3 A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. 4 Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven …
Read more →Imagine if you will, a mountain shrouded with clouds, and on that mountain a lone watchman stands. He has been given a prophetic word for the people and he is determined to do that regardless of what might happen to …
Read more →I’d like to bring you on my journey to this place of Christian formation that is now becoming my home. I feel at times that I’ve come from a far country of a faith fairly stripped of scripted liturgy. I …
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