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. …
A good testimony
I used to think my best testimony was when I told someone that God did this miracle or another in me or around me. I supposed the best way to introduce people to God were stories of divine intervention and deliverance . While those are good, I’d say that if he always took all my suffering …
Comforted comforters…
2 Corinthians 1:3-11 This is chapter 2 in my “Learning Leadership Lessons from 2 Corinthians” that you can find here. 2 Corinthians contains more references to “trouble” and “tribulation” that any other book in the New Testament. But it also contains more in it about God’s “comfort” than any other. While the term “tribulation” is …
What Jesus Thought About Universal Victim Blaming (Part 5 of 5)
As you can see this is one piece of a five-part essay. If you’d rather read it all at once, you can find it in barneywiget.com “I tell you, no!” said Jesus disagreeing in no uncertain terms with their premise that bad things happen exclusively to bad people. Spiritual blamers of all types might be …
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[I highly recommend these books. Crabb's book is on dealing with suffering, Lamb's is about the difficulties we have with the Old Testament, and the ones by Cole are about how we do church and how we might do it better: Shattered Dreams... God Behaving Badly... Organic Church...] Shattered Dreams– God’s Unexpected Pathway to Joy, …
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