friendship, God, Hebrews, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Matthew, pain, Paul, prayer, Psalms, relationships, Romans, suffering, trials
This morning I read Romans 15, and I became fixated on one verse in particular. Verse 30 says, “I urge you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to join me in my struggle by praying to God for me.” Paul is wrapping up a long...
1 Peter, Bible, faith, grief, Jesus, pain, Peter, suffering, trials
Hi. My name is Kelly. I used to write here. Often. And I used to love it. And some of you enjoyed it, too. But in January, 2015, I started working on my master’s and all but totally stopped writing here. And I missed it. A lot. And some of you missed it,...
2 Peter, God, grace, temptation, trials
“…the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from temptations…” (2 Peter 2:9, NASB) I hadn’t ever heard it put that way before. I could use a God like that because, frankly, I can’t rescue myself from temptations. I know me. I know my flesh. I know the allure temptations...
Bible, God, Isaiah, Jesus, redemption, trials, trust
So, to understate things, Israel had some trust issues with the Lord. (I’m glad to know I’m not the only one.) The Old Testament spends a lot of time chronicling the ways in which Israel failed to believe God would/could take care of them, despite His...
C.S. Lewis, discipline, faith, God, Holy Spirit, Oswald Chambers, pain, prayer, spiritual growth, trials
Most mornings I read Oswald Chambers’ daily devotional, My Utmost for His Highest. If you’re not familiar with him, Oswald is like a Christian superhero, right under C.S. Lewis, but well above Larry Boy. Somehow I started reading Chambers straight out of...
God, provision, Spiritual legacy, trials, trust
About a month ago I started having a symptom that commonsense told me I should have checked by a doctor. It wasn’t bothersome, but knowing it might be a bad sign, I called the doctor. And she told me to come in. Of course, she was pretty nonchalant. She gave me...
