believe, Bible, Father, fear, God, hope, Jesus, pain, significance, spiritual growth, trust
When the world starts to turn upside down and my stomach turns with it, it can feel like the whole globe has run clean off its orbital path, veering into the vastness of dark space waiting to swallow it whole. When order and routine and the expected and all that is...
believe, Bible, faith, God, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Psalms, waiting
I’m doing a whole lot of waiting these days. Deadlines are getting pushed back, people are taking their sweet time following up with me, answers are taking longer to come than I appreciate. In at least four major areas of my life, it seems “wait and...
believe, Bible, fear, God, Jesus, Matthew, obedience, Peter
We all know the story of Jesus and Peter walking on water, but some things about it struck me differently today. First, Jesus made the disciples get into that boat and sail on ahead of Him INTO A STORM while he wrapped up a long day of teaching with some solitary...
1 John, 2 Kings, believe, Bible, faith, God, Isaiah, Jesus, John, pain, Psalms, spiritual growth
When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” – John 5:6 Jesus had said this to a man 2000 years ago, but He may as well have said it to me. To you. The man in the verse...
1 Thessalonians, believe, Bible, God, Philippians, spiritual growth
When we become believers, we’re given a couple of gifts. 1) We get to go to Heaven when we die. 2) We get to have a relationship with God now. What we’re not given is instantaneous spiritual maturity. We are the same ole shmucks we were before we accepted...
