Faithful Then. Faithful Now

You make mountains move.You make giants fall.And You use songs of praiseto shake prison walls.I will speak to my fear.I will preach to my doubtYou were faithful then.You will be faithful now. They rode camels and were only just beginning to consider that the world...

Serendipity

It is not the nature of God to reward good deeds, but it is in the character of God to build serendipity and cosmic justice into His Creation. From the #imjustsaying series

Desire Unfulfilled

In his book, Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis writes on desire, and on the nagging sense that some fulfillment could just be fuller: “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another...

Faithfulness, Not Success

The lion’s share of world-changing work is done by ordinary people who will never make headlines. They simply live faithful lives where God has placed them. Long obediences in the same direction. They’re the ones who nevertheless shape families, communities,...

A Prayer For The Day

God be in my head, and in my understanding;God be in mine eyes, and in my looking;God be in my mouth, and in my speaking;God be in my heart, and in my thinking;God be at mine end, and at my departing. Sarum Primer,...

Love and Surrender

“Christianity does not think of man finally submitting to the power of God, it thinks of him as finally surrendering to the love of God. It is not that man’s will is crushed, but that man’s heart is broken.” William Barclay