Comfortable Being Uncomfortable
Passing Through the Desperate In-Between As God moves us from the brokenness of our past to a future filled with His wholeness and purpose, we will unquestionably experience times of uncertainty, anxiousness, and fear. Gifted author Lysa TerQuerst, in her amazing book entitled Uninvited, describes this season as “moving through the desperate in-between.” Look at…
No Perfect People Allowed!
I’ve sometimes felt that my journey of transformation has been like trying to turn the Titanic. Very intentional. Yet slow and methodical. More than three decades in fact. The beauty of being transformed by Christ into the likeness of Christ is that it’s all about the journey. There’s really not a destination – at least…
Paradox Of Justice And Mercy
The Blind “Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the good news. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God” (2 Corinthians 4:4 NLT). Blindness is a…
Free Indeed
The Imprisoned Most of us probably never put much thought into the difference between a captive and a prisoner. A captive is held captive due to no fault or wrongdoing on their part, whereas a prisoner is imprisoned due to some sort of wrongdoing that fell outside the accepted laws. Again, I’m very certain that…
My Burden Is Lignt
The Brokenhearted In the Bible, the brokenhearted are people who are deeply aware of their spiritual bankruptcy and helplessness, and long for someone or something to save them. Theologian Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle writes, “Broken hearts are embodied in the Hebrew scriptures as crippled legs that have walked deviant paths, stumbled, and fallen against the God’s…
Emotional Poverty
The Bible illuminates seven realities within these passages. And when we humbly admit that each of these are actually characteristics of our own brokenness, this revelation will completely turn our lives inside out, and radically shift our identity from the brokenness and depression of our pasts to the hope and wholeness found only in Jesus….