From the inception of the creation God values life. The whole creation is alive, vibrant, and beautiful. Day after day God makes a glorious environment, full of wonder, woven together in an extraordinary interdependence that is created to make: more life. And when all is ready, when the world is perfect and clean and good, […]
Human trafficking. A heartbreaking problem that lurks around the edge of our artificial fortresses of security until we are forced to face its grim reality through our own tragic experience of it, or through a film like Sound of Freedom.
Psalm 33 is full of joy and promise, and verse 12 is the pivotal statement: Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; the people whom He has chosen as His heritage! God’s favor rests on His people. God delivers His own from famine, and our souls from death. The people that God has
Salvation always includes calling, and in different times and places and seasons the works God has prepared for us may play to our natural strengths, or they may force us to lean into the Holy Spirit for divine spiritual gifts and resources to accomplish the tasks He has called us to do. Calling also always brings blessing.
Start with worship. When Ezra and the exiles return to Jerusalem after seventy years, they come home to: devastation. Standing on the barren plateau where the Temple of the LORD once stood, nothing is left. Across a landscape of broken stone, broken walls, not even the foundation is left. With the sun beating down on
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But if I have learned anything as a Christian, it is that keeping a stiff upper lip simply means we have hot lava in our souls that attacks God’s love for us, our salvation in Christ, and our Holy Spirit access to help. When I finally had the courage to become vulnerable and start speaking out about our pain, two things happened: I found I was not the only one dealing with this pain, and I found blessed release in naming the name of the pain out loud.