Category: The Exchanged Life
When a Christian or group of Christians dies because they trust that Christ is the faithful revelation of God and of a new humanity, their death is not like …
Really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not in them but through them.~John Ruskin (1819-1900)The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” And the …
Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life–be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others…I am alienated from my …
The Word we study has to be the Word we pray. My personal experience of the relentless tenderness of God came not from exegetes, theologians, and spiritual writers, but …
And yet it may happen in these most desperate trials of our human existence that beyond any rational explanation, we may feel a nail-scarred Hand clutching ours. We are …
The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart. And when he began pulling the skin off, it hurt …
O sweetness of my heart! O life of my soul, joyous resting place of my spirit! O bright and beautiful day of eternity, serene light deep within me! Flowering …
These things are beautiful beyond belief;The pleasant weakness that comes after pain,The radiant greenness that comes after rain,The deepened faith that follows after grief,And the awakening to love again.~William …
