[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, …
DON’T BRING MATCHES
[This is number nine of fourteen passages that sustained me in my dark palce a few years ago.] 10 Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the word of his servant? Let him who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the LORD …
ENDURE DIFFICULTY AND EMBRACE ITS DISCIPLINE
[This is the eighth of fourteen passages that sustained me in my dark place.] …submit to the Father of our spirits and live! Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness. No discipline seems pleasant at the …
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“Jobian”…
[Another random selection from the memoir I'm finishing up...] We ignore the ambiguity that accompanies our finitude, and thus we claim to know what we can't know. We reduce the unfathomable complexity of the cosmos to the capacity of our finite minds. When we do this, we invariably end up blaming God or indicting victims. …
Hell and hilarity in the hospital (part one)
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. Proverbs 17:22 I have a newfound respect for anyone who works with the sick and infirmed. I can think of about three hundred careers that I would choose before going into the medical field. First of all, sick people are no …
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