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- I love teaching children
- Buckets that leak
- Who is the Holy Spirit?
- Are you walking at a distance from God?
- no matter when or where you’ve lived
- Why do we respond to beauty like we do?
- self-hate, or what God says about you
- if you haven’t read it…
- Depression: an embarrassment to be hidden, or a door for grace to enter through?
- when I need an attitude check
- Were you hired at the eleventh hour?
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- trampled the waves of the sea
- A royal diadem in the hand of God?
- passing through walls like rocks pass through water
- Lean hard.
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- helping generations you might never see
- little starfish smiles
- knowledge too heavy
- the teaching of kindness is on her tongue
Tag Archives: peace
suffering is never for nothing
When we face news that leaves us speechless with confusion and grief, and we realize we’re being led into a new path of intense suffering, what can we know to be true? Elisabeth Elliot used to tell a story that … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian suffering, Christianity, Elisabeth Elliot, faith, Isaiah 43:2-3, Isaiah 43:4, Jeremiah 31:3, peace, sheep, shepherd, suffering, tragedy, unexpected news
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Cynical. Jaded. Hope-less.
“Cynicism begins with a wry assurance that everyone has an angle. Behind every silver lining is a cloud. The cynic is always observing, critiquing, but never engaging, loving, and hoping…Cynicism creates a numbness toward life… The movement from naive optimism … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian hope, cynical, Jaded, lost hope, loved, Matthew 11, negative, Paul Miller, peace, Philippians 4, Prayer, sarcastic, scornful
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Does God know what you need Him to withhold?
The sentence is there, tucked into Ryle’s explanation of Jesus as the Good Shepherd. It’s a short sentence. But the statement comes to mind when I’m in a conversation with someone who yearns for beautiful earthly goods, or when a … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Faith, God, Jesus
Tagged glory, God gives better, God withholds, grace, greater plan, health, money, peace, prosperity, Ryle
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Leaving the Land of the Deadly Ifs (part 2)
There is a way to leave the Land of the Deadly Ifs. The way involves movement, as any leaving would. But it’s not movement away. It’s movement toward. In…closer…like this: “The crowds say he’s in the nearby countryside. He’s the … Continue reading
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Tagged alone, clean, daughter, faith, hemorrhage, Jesus, no cure, outcast, peace, woman with hemorrhage
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what you would have asked for
Pithy, precise, profound — those are the kinds of quotes God often uses to quicken and soften our hearts. A wise, couple-sentence summation of God’s truth often stills my anxious heart, or alerts me to lies I’m believing in the … Continue reading
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Tagged favorite quotes, good quote, growth in faith, pain, peace, sorrow, suffering, Tim Keller, transformed thinking, truth
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As a weaned child
Do you know Pablo Picasso’s Mother and Child? In the years after his first child’s birth, Picasso sketched a series of drawings and then painted numerous versions of the same scene. The piece captures a sense of quiet joy, of … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Waring, assurance, child, contentment, joy, mothering, Pablo Picasso, peace, Psalm 131, trust, weaned
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Even More Beautiful 