In my wilderness, as in the Hebrew Exodus, manna appeared in the morning, a pillar of cloud rose up to shade me in the sweltering afternoon desert sun, and a pillar of fire warmed me and lighted my way through the darkness of night. Literally “manna” means, “What is this?” The first manna recipients wondered …
What God is Like (Musings on the character of God) #6
It began to seem that his blessings were more randomly than uniformly distributed than I had once believed. The “God-always-does-this-and-not-that” approach to which I had previously ascribed didn’t seem nearly as valid as it once had. I used to think that he distributed blessings at more predictable increments along our path. Now it seems like …
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Still more on forgiveness (forgiving God)
Heaven renders unanswerable "why" questions irrelevant and inspires us to live with them in hope. Gregory A. Boyd Lord, if this is the way you treat your friends, no wonder you don’t have many! Mother Teresa Back at the beginning of the bleakness, over Chinese food my friend Joe asked me if my faith in God …
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