The Israelites left Egypt, all its four-hundred-years of slavery and hardship and brokenness. They followed God. They really, really did. He was leading them with a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. And God led them right to the edge of a sea, and in the distance they saw the army…
God writes the most beautiful of love stories. In fact, you could argue that everything He does is a love story written from His heart to ours. But when people say, “I’m letting God write my love story,” we all know what they’re talking about. They are choosing to look at life, and the choice…
One of the biggest questions of the Christian life is, What is God calling me to do? I often hear young people ask this question, but the truth is that I ask it of myself on an almost-daily basis. What about today, God? What do you want from me right now? My dream is to align my heart,…
I don’t agree with everything that takes place at my church. There are times I raise my eyebrows in surprise at things that are accepted or thought–and there are also times when I realize other people are raising their eyebrows at me. There are times when the leadership announces decisions that make me applaud inside–…
Two days ago I was walking across the haymow with a small square bale in my hands when the floor disappeared from under me. The next thing I knew my elbows were cracking against the splintered edges of the boards and I was throwing myself sideways to keep from falling the eight feet down onto…
Jacob had a soul-wound that spilled all over the pages of Genesis. From before he was even born this striving, pulling, grasping desire to make himself great burned through his veins. Every time we turn around he’s manipulating or stealing or deceiving, pushing himself forward by sheer force of will. And then we find him,…
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