Ah, how Thy grace hath wooed my soul With persevering wiles! Now give me tears to weep; for tears Are deeper joy than smiles. FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER I confess that out of all the worship songs I’ve written, not one of them could be considered a lament, you know, of the book of Lamentations sort. …
Sometimes You Just Gotta Go Ahead And Cry!
“Let the tears roll like a river, day and night, and keep at it—no time-outs. Keep those tears flowing!” Lamentations 2:18 (The Message Bible) A friend of mine had just come from visiting a church’s worship service when I asked him what he thought. He was complimentary of the gathering as a whole but made one …
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The Missing Component
I was praying for a close friend the other day. She has everything in the world going for her. She’s very happily married, has a beautiful and healthy baby, a great job, and lives in a nice house in a cool California beach town with lots of friends and family around. I was thanking God …
Servant Subversion – A Wrap Up
Okay, I confess to a quasi-obsession with this topic which has taken me a lot longer than I expected to unpack. I can’t seem to get out of my craw that we’re strangers following a Stranger here with a strange message in a strange land among strange people who think we’re strange. I can’t stop musing …
Servant Subversion versus Abdication
“The light of the world does not withdraw, saying “good riddance” to godless darkness. The salt of the earth does not mock rotting meat. Where it can, it saves and seasons. Where it can’t, it weeps.” Now that we’ve contrasted Servant Subversion with fortification, exploitation, domination, and accommodation, let’s examine one “last” strategy that Christians …
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