My soul clings to you,Your right hand upholds me.
You ask, but do not have because . . .
If we seek God for an answer of our own making, we will not have what we ask of him. We want God to provide a way, but often refuse…
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…
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…
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…
Being Stripped of our glory
Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And…
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,…
Madness
We don’t believe that God can satisfy us and so we find our satisfaction in other things. “My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of…
Good intentions are evil
The terror of evil is not the horror we see in the movies. No, the danger of evil is that it appears to us as light. It deceives us by…
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…
We won’t let go
Because of our sin is more important to us than our spouse, our children, our family, our friends, despite the harm our sin causes, we hold on to it. We…
