“Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It’s dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out.” ~ Tullian Tchividjian When we look closely at the world, including our own life, we can’t help but… Read More »
Our Best Interest is God’s Interest
“Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‘our own life’ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‘our own life’ less agreeable to us and take… Read More »
Finding Hope In Grief
“While grief is not fun to deal with, it is a valuable tool to bring about amazing change and growth. The key to this deep level of learning is attitude. How will you respond to the pain you’re feeling?” ~ Diamante Lavendar During this pandemic, we have watched the news and read the reports of… Read More »
The Log Eye Process
“Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others, we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.” ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer All humans at varying times throughout their lives suffer from “the log eye process.” The log eye process means… Read More »
No More Questions?
I doubt there is anything more intimidating than to be in a debate with God. You spend your whole life devoted to religious practice and tradition, only to be told by God that you don’t know even know what you don’t know. In our scripture reading today, we discover this is what happened to the… Read More »
