Mike Emlet encourages us to find the line that has trust in God’s providence on one side, and reliance on our effort and initiative on the other. it’s easy to become imbalanced and to drift into either the “power mode” or the “presumption mode.” In the power mode, we take charge of our lives as …
Anger with God is not unbelief. It is an aspect of faith that has reached its current limitations. Bonnie Zahl writes about the various ways in which a relationship with God will sometimes find us in pain and wrestling with him. Being in relationship with other Christians we need to grow together in grace and …
God’s people can be singing his praise and grumbling against him in a matter of days, hours, or minutes. Tim Chester writes about how easily we can lose perspective and how quickly our hearts can harden: It’s sometimes said that most Western societies are three days of empty shelves from civil disorder. We appear to …
A life that knows the power of the resurrection of Jesus will experience growth in character through both joy and pain according to Dale Ralph Davis: You remember what Paul says in Philippians 3 in that marvellous verse, ‘That I may know him and the power of the resurrection’ (v. 10). What does that involve? …
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