[Chapter 14 of "How God Guides"... You know when you find yourself in a situation that seems coincidental, but you're pretty sure this wasn't just the power of fate or luck? You know when you have a "chance meeting" someone in a place you never go, with someone you haven't seen in years, and you …
Avoiding the “Mediocre Middle” (Part 2)
In Part 1 I talked about the tension between having faith to “suffer well” and faith to “get well.” Sometimes God has his reasons for miraculously making us well and at other times he gives us the strength to suffer well. The same God who said to Moses, “I am the Lord who heals you,” …
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How’s your “whatever”?
[This is chapter 13 of "How God Guides." Did you ever have a "Whatever"? If not, do you want one? If so, how will you keep it and not lose it like I did? If you do lose it, how does one get it back? All very deep theological topics...] I was in the darkest …
You gotta live right to hear right
[Chapter 12 of  "How God Guides"...  I'm certainly not saying here that we have to be perfect to expect God to lead us. But you have to admit that it makes sense that he would lead people who are going to do their best to do what he leads them to do. Right?] He leads …
Open and closed doors…
[Here's an 11th chapter of the "How God Guides" paper. Some of us use the terminology of "the open and closed door" to describe circumstances when it seems that God has put an obstacle in front of us to discourage us from going one way or when he appears to have orchestrated other circumstances to …
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