HE'S IN CONTROL, BUT NOT CONTROLLING There has been many times through the years that I’ve prayed for something over and over, and haven’t seen the result I was anticipating. Sometimes my prayers feel like I’m repeatedly and franticly pressing the “Call Nurse” button next to my hospital bed. “I’m in pain here! Where are …
Loving the unpredictable God (part 3)
SOMETIMES I CALL HIM THE “SOMETIMES” GOD The character that depicts Jesus in C.S. Lewis’ series, The Chronicles of Narnia is a ferocious lion named, Aslan. One of the notable characteristics of the lion was his unpredictability. He even seemed fickle at times. Sometimes he would show up and, in the nick of time, save …
Loving the unpredictable God (part 2)
Trusting the "Sometimes" God (Before you freak out, please be assured that I’m not implying that God is “sometimes God,” and then sometimes he’s not! I mean something else, which you’ll have to read further to find out.) The season of anguish to which I refer in Part One, left me, albeit temporarily, jaded in …
Loving an Unpredictable God (Part 1)
Over Chinese food my friend Joe asked me if my faith in God was in tact. I was getting divorced, broke my neck, and was just diagnosed with cancer. He was concerned for me and wanted to know how to best be a support to me in my dark night of the soul. I’d loved …
Some pastors pray way too much…
Many of my best friends are pastors. Really. For the most part pastors are fine people. Recently to two such friends of mine I said that they “pray too much.” In my humble opinion, there’s an epidemic proportion of profuse pastoral prayers in public. OK, I exaggerate in order to provoke – I also liked …
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