My soul clings to you,Your right hand upholds me.
Smelly Dead
When I see the druggie, the alcoholic, the murderer, the person who is down and out, the person steeped in sexual immorality, the racist, the poor, the homeless, the sick,…
Trying to figure out my mess, my broken heart, my sin
When I struggle or my heart is broken or I’ve failed or I don’t feel anything at all, I find myself wanting to figure it all out. I rush to…
Good News, not good advice
I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me! For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband,…
False Motives
Some people will neglect doing good, because what prompted that good was a false motive. I have learned to thank God for using the false motive to remind me to…
We cannot work righteousness
We cannot work righteousness in our lives. We cannot be holy through our own effort. Just as we were saved through grace by the power of the work of Christ,…
The Worship God brings to us. . . we bring nothing
In our pursuit of worship are we pursuing a “transcendent” experience where we emotionally feel a certain way or are we coming to worship knowing the power of God to…
May God enable others to see my weakness
This may sound strange. But hope others see me as weak. Not in a pitiful sense, but in the sense that what ever strength is seen in me is credited…
Unshockable
One of the things my pastor says often is that he wants us to be an unshockable people, where we come together and love each other despite all the muck…
Piety overcoming struggles with sin
I have been struggling with fears. And as I have been struggling with these fears, I am finding that there is so much sin in me. And I am crushed…
Preaching the Gospel through God’s love for us
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world’s…
