It’s Just Easier When We Pretend
“It does not take much to resist the devil when we pretend he is an easily kicked around buffoon.”
“It does not take much to resist the devil when we pretend he is an easily kicked around buffoon.”
“My prayer is that every ordinand would experience the convergence of call, character, and competence.”
Going back to the way things were is not an option.
When we’re up close with nature, the beauty is undeniable. But it can be harder to see the beauty that comes from being created by God when it comes to people.
We continue to press in and press on, even when we do not get it right.
“So tending to hope requires breath—not only the monitoring of our own breathing in self-care, but the continual breath of the Holy Spirit.”
Thirteen chapters before Jesus is betrayed, Luke tells us, “As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out
Prayer, if authentic, requires honesty. And honesty before God requires being honest with myself.
The angel tells him to do something critically important: Eat and take a nap. It’s almost ridiculous, isn’t it?
Saturated—the word means soaked, drenched, unable to hold any more hope because we are entirely filled with it.
