"We're more than what we expected and we're less than what we hope to be." Sit with that for a second. Don't rush past it the way you rush past most quotes that show up in your feed at 11pm. Because that line isn't comfort. It isn't a compliment either. It's a mirror, and mirrors … Continue reading The Gap
“And if he taught us how to pray he must have intended to answer.” Think about that for a second. Somewhere on a hillside, with the wind doing whatever wind does and the disciples watching him the way you watch someone who actually knows what they are doing, Jesus stops praying long enough for one … Continue reading He Meant It!
"Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?" It's a strange sentence to sit with. Say it slowly and it collapses in on itself, because if the second half is true, the first half can't be. And yet, in one form or another, most of us have built entire seasons of life … Continue reading Trust Me, I’m Lying
“The greatness of God is not just that He is big enough to rule the world, but gracious enough to care about you.” We have seen him as holy, loving, good, patient, just, faithful, all-knowing, present, gracious, and sovereign. And through all of it, there has been one quiet assumption threading everything together, that the … Continue reading God, Unedited (S1 E12)
“Nothing comes into your life that has not first passed through the hands of a sovereign God.” He Is Sovereign. Nothing Is Out of His Hands The sovereignty of God is one of those doctrines that is easy to celebrate in theory and deeply difficult to hold in practice. When things are going well, saying … Continue reading God, Unedited (S1 E11)
“The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.” He Is Gracious. He Gives What We Cannot Earn We live in an achievement culture. From the moment we are old enough to be assessed in school, in sport, in work, in social media we learn that reward follows performance. … Continue reading God, Unedited (S1 E10)
“God is closer to us than we are to ourselves.” He Is Present. Nearer Than You Feel Feelings lie. That may sound harsh, but it is one of the most practically important things a follower of Jesus can understand. The feeling of God's absence is one of the most common and most disorienting experiences in … Continue reading God, Unedited (S1 E9)
“To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.” He Is Omniscient. He Knows You Fully and Loves You Still There is a fear that lives underneath much of our spiritual life, and it goes something like this: if God really knew everything about me, not just … Continue reading God, Unedited (S1 E8)
“The glory of God's faithfulness is that no sin of ours has ever made Him unfaithful.” He Is Faithful. When Everything Else Shifts The book of Lamentations does not open in a comfortable place. It is a book of raw grief, written in the wake of Jerusalem's destruction. The city is in ruins. The temple, … Continue reading God, Unedited (S1 E7)
“Justice is what love looks like in public.” He Is Just. And We Need Him to Be Justice is the attribute that makes many modern people uncomfortable about God. We live in a culture that has absorbed a version of divine love that struggles to hold anything at arm's length. A God of love, the … Continue reading God, Unedited (S1 E6)
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