How Far Will He Go?

Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?  If I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
-King David to the Lord God
How far will the Lord go to have us?
The King James translation of the Scripture quoted above uses the word “hell” for “depths,” an accurate translation [...]

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A Moment of Grace

Quoted from The Ragamuffing Gospel, p. 92-93:
A story is told about Riorello LaGuardia, who, when he was mayor of New York City during the worst days of the Great Depression and all of World War II, was called by adoring New Yorkers ‘the Little Flower’ because he was only five foot four and always wore a [...]

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A Surprising Encounter

I’m big on journaling. It’s a discipline I discovered some years back that helps me process through what God is showing me, that helps me express desires or fears that may be buried beneath the busyness of the day, that helps me engage in prayer with the Lord when the noise outside is too [...]

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Conversatio Morum

NEWS?

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All of us have hang-ups when it comes to praying. Sometimes we get tripped up and stumble around for awhile trying to figure out how to pray. Some of us at various times wonder if we should pray. At other times, we know we can, we know we should, [...]

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Letting Go of Guilt

Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, tolerance and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you toward repentance? -Romans 2:4

Guilt,
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by Grenen.

A friend, Joe, and I were recently discussing the prominent role that guilt seems to play in many people’s lives. In particular, Joe told me how much [...]

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Riffraff

Our church sponsors a home in Cambodia that brings in homeless children from the streets and provides for them shelter, education, Christian influence — a home life, essentially. It’s not an orphanage exactly, in that these children are not adopted out to families. This is their family. The “parents” are American missionaries. [...]

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How Good is the News?

You are worse off than you ever dared to imagine, but God loves you more than you ever dared to hope.
-Manhattan church planter Tim Keller
I’ve been taking a look a bit at the life of Jeffrey Dahmer, the infamous serial killer who many of us know of as the murderer who cannibalized his victims. [...]

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