I decided early on that I didn’t want the “victim virus” to take over my mind or my mouth, because I quickly noticed that whenever I succumbed to victimhood, “poor me” kept stumbling around in the dark, delaying my progress through the murky shadows. As Eugene H. Peterson writes, “God feels our pains, but he …
Forgiving Me
Without confidence in the stubborn love of the Father and the over-ample sacrifice of Jesus I’d sink in the quicksand of my self-reproach. He sees my heart of repentance, hears the sincerity of my confession, takes a good long gaze into the eyes of his Son at his right hand, and assures me that the …
Collaborative Seed Sowing
The Spirit is anything but stingy with solicitations. His mailbag overflows as he distributes clues of the Father’s love, whose default is to include rather than exclude people from his family. Jesus overpaid for as many orphans as would come home with him. And he doesn’t care which orphanage in which he finds them! Conveying a …
Kim Jong Un: “Great negotiator… Good personality… Loves his people.”
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.” Isaiah 5:20 I’ll make this brief. My disappointment is so great, if I say too much, I’ll end up saying too much, if you know what …
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How To Get To God
Is Jesus the only way to God? A definite yes! But there’s a difference between different ways to God and different ways God uses to get people to the way. God is willing to travel any road to find people who haven’t yet found the way. He stubbornly hunts for the hearts of people and …
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