The experience of Job recounts a faithful and human expression of trust in God through a time of great suffering and confusion. Hywel Jones points out that we should be encouraged to know that God was not an inactive party throughout Satan’s assault on Job, and that after Job’s vindication there is a touching example …
In a book of devotions drawn from the Gospel of Mark, Larry Parsley reflects on the observation that Jesus attracts the wrong sort of people, and sometimes some of us can forget that we’re the wrong sort of people too. Parsley concludes his devotion with a story that most pastors have experienced in one form …
I do spend an hour and a half outside most days walking, but I’m not a huge fan of nature. To say the least. It’s a pretty well-known thing that anyone who knows me has heard about. This article by Scott Martin points out how not experiencing creation on a regular basis cuts a person …
Derek Thomas on the mark of Christian authenticity: our secret life. For those whose calling involves public expressions of the Christian life, the challenge is to live as a disciple of Jesus when people can’t see us. From the article: Six times in the Sermon on the Mount, alluding to three distinct exercises, Jesus employs …
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