IS IT A SIN TO BE AFRAID?

Ed Welch has a great answer. He doesn’t answer the question, really, but he does put the command into a real life context that invites us to come to the God who loves us instead of OBEYING a harsh judgmental God. More great stuff.

misplaced affections

Show me a person who has lost hope and I’ll show you a person who has misplaced affections. When the weight of our problems outweigh the weight of the Gospel in our lives, we are not far from discouragement, anger, and despair. Counseling solutions.

Loving God

by Lisa Leidenfrost Math 22:37 “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment.” If this is the greatest commandment, do we love God with all our heart, soul and mind? We could respond, ‘Yes, but I do it […]

With Gratitude and Thanksgiving

Hi Georgina, There are times when the various Scripture passages can sound hollow and without meaning—even trite. This is often because we are so familiar with them that we’ve forgotten why we memorized them in the first place or perhaps because we believe the world; and the world sucks the life out of the truths […]

Suffering Through Grief

Grief is the word we use referring to the variety of emotions we feel when dealing with loss.  There are generally three kinds of events that can cause grief: The first is when someone close to us dies; the second is when we lose anything at all; the third is when we don’t receive something we […]

As I am pleased

“Sinner, thou thinkest, that because of thy sins and infirmities, I cannot save thy soul; but behold my Son is by me, and upon him I look, and not on thee, and will deal with thee according as I am pleased with him.” From The Works of John Bunyan

You’re gonna’ get squashed!

In the midst of promise, Jesus guarantees we will suffer. “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). “You’re gonna’ get squashed!” is a fair vernacular paraphrase. Hemmed in, harassed, and distressed. […]

in every condition

“I offer the following description: Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God’s wise and fatherly disposal in every condition” (Jeremiah Burroughs, Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, p. 2).

grace shall conquer

“… all God cares for, works for, plots for it is to do His people no more hurts than this—to advance His grace in them and by them, all His hewings and hammerings of you, nay, His knocking you to pieces and new melting and casting of you, it is that you may be vessels […]