Posts tagged “Goodness”
Humbly self-aware
Satan just cannot abide Christians walking peacefully and happily along the middle of the road of our lives. He will either try to shove…
Who should you listen to?
At age 18, Katie Davis moved to Uganda for a year to do mission work. Her parents and others didn’t exactly want her to,…
Three quarantine insights
We’ve been “stuck at home/safer at home” for over a month now, and it feels a lot longer than that. And here are a…
During corona, your pastor needs you
The other day, the pastors at our congregation wanted to make sure our church was making it through the new world that the coronavirus…
Blessing #8—Teaching Us Gospel Theology
Right when the coronavirus was snowballing into a global pandemic, I was trying to get home. After an abbreviated trip to Israel, I was…
Blessing #6—Teaching Us Generosity
I suspect that 2020 will throw us the slowest pitch the Christian church has gotten in a long time. Our prayers for revival might…
In a corona world, love like a local
I made the mistake (again) of checking the news today. The headlines (again) were global. “America may be at its most dangerous point.” “Italy…
A little glimpse of God
It’s easy to see the big ways God works in our lives: the plane that lands safely or a loved one recovering from an…
Special treatment
I’ve noticed something interesting that happens whenever I get a new smartphone (which isn’t all that often). As soon as it enters my possession,…
Coronavirus: The marathon you didn’t sign up for
The Corona 5K officially turned into a marathon. I could almost see the finish line of my 14-day, post-Israel self-quarantine when the news dropped….
Ask for the ancient paths
It is the conceit of the young to imagine that their age is the most enlightened in history, that technology has changed everything, that…
Prodigalish
In his book the Prodigal God, Timothy Keller takes another look at Jesus’ well-known parable of Luke 15. The heading someone put in our…