It’s interesting how often sins seem to come in bunches. In the past couple of weeks I’ve heard several stories of men biting the dust in the area of adultery. I live in a college town and so porn problems are pretty common, but actual adultery is, thankfully, pretty rare. The reason I’m writing on […]
Dear Dr. Lawyer, So what am I doing wrong if I’m drawing closer to Christ in every way I know how (Bible reading, church, Bible study, Christian friends), and I do feel fulfilled as a mother, but I wouldn’t call myself joyful? It’s more 90% of an ‘I made it through another day’ type of […]
“After trauma the world becomes sharply divided between those who know and those who don’t. People who have not shared the traumatic experience cannot be trusted, because they can’t understand it. Sadly, this often includes spouses, children, and coworkers” The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der […]
The director of the conference based the morning devotions at breakfast on the Twenty-Third Psalm. This morning I awoke a bit blue in my spirits. My dear Sara lies in the hospital again and we are trying to get her into a medical center under an endocrinologist who should know more about her strange malady. […]
“You may not have connected your Wanderlust to see Asia with the promises in scripture that you will “depart and be with Christ“ (Philippians 1:23), but the desires are tied. You may never have connected your relentless pursuit of approval from your boss with the promise that in Christ, you’ll hear, “well done, good and […]
These “snap shots” that God gives us of Himself are much more than God accommodating Himself to human language. God isn’t using our understanding of servants to suggest that He is like a servant. No, God is theservant, thehusband, thefather, thebrother, and thefriend. Any resemblance in the created world is simply God’s glory spilling into creation and creatures. Whenever you […]
“Things that hint at glory…Nostalgia hints at glory…Love hints at glory…Proper praise from a superior hints at glory…Your earning for another land hints at glory…Art hints at glory…The desire to be “inside” hints at glory.” Seeing Green: Don’t Let Envy Color Your Joy, Tilly Dillehay.P 25
“So God’s glory is the weight, splendor, and majesty that he possessed by his very nature before anything else ever existed. Yet when the Bible speaks of God’s glory, it usually refers to his glory as it shines forth in history—as it is displayed and reflected in his mighty acts of creation of redemption.” Seeing […]
In the first session or two of counseling I usually give watching my video, “How To Confess Your Sin,” as homework. I also tell the folks that they need to do what I say to do in the video, which is to confess their sin to God and to anyone they have sinned against. If I […]
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