A King Born to Be Rejected
What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness. Buffeted by the fickle …
Category: Pain
Always Pain – Always More G_d
Suffering is at the burning core of everything because love is. We need not feel alone in suffering because God is a suffering God who pulls close at our …
Our Own Personal 9/11s: It Matters How We Handle Our Pain
In explaining the growth of his faith, psychiatrist Gerald May writes, “I know that God is loving and that God’s loving is trustworthy. I know this directly, through the …
Suffering: Warfare in The Hornet’s Nest of Our Mind
When you’re lovers in a dangerous time Sometimes you’re made to feel as if your love’s a crime — But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight …
Death and Life in Our Tongue
Jesus… says it’s murder when we destroy people with our words. It’s murder when we put people down and treat them as insignificant. ~Rebecca Manley Pippert For no good …
Loving Beyond Pain
I know that God is loving and that God’s loving is trustworthy. I know this directly, through the experience of my life. There have been plenty of times of …
We Cannot Keep What We Do Not Give Away
The seed dies into a new life and so does man. ~George Macdonald (1824-1905) “Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you …
Pain And Beauty
Bloody nose and burning eyes Raised in laughter to the skies I’ve been in trouble but I’m ok Been through the wringer but I’m ok Walls are falling and …
