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 …
The maturity of disciples of Jesus shows in a consciousness that expresses humility about of how far we have to go, not pride in how far we have come. From Michael Kelley: We are on this road – on this walk – not because of our achievement but because of God’s grace in the gospel. …
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