05/08/2012

What Am I Learning?

Like many folks, I am in a difficult season of life at the moment.  I won't go into the details.  Yet, unlike other times of hardship, I don't really see what the struggle is producing in my life.  Often when we get into seasons like this, we do not want the struggle to be in vain, so we look for the meaning in the hardness.  We ...

05/03/2012

No Condemnation!

"There is therefore no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." (Rom.8:1)  These are wonderful words that need to take to heart often.  Yet, what does this actually mean for me?  It means exactly what it says, nothing less. 

When sin makes its presence known in my life, I feel shame and guilt.  I know God wa ...

04/04/2012

The Value of Chaos

Chaos is something that none of us enjoy.  We love to have our lives well ordered and predictable.  Yet, when that is the case, we might be missing something very valuable.  When I have everything properly aligned, when finances are well ordered, and when things are in their proper place, I tend to find rest in the order that I creat ...

01/17/2012

The Promised Land

In Exodus we are given the story of how God saved His people from the grips of slavery to Pharaoh to give to them the "Promised Land", a land "flowing with milk and honey".  On the way to that good land, they ran into much trouble, most of their own making.  They complained about most everything.  At times they wished that they were ...

11/29/2011

The Danger of Sinless Perfection

"Victory over sin without communion with God would be a meaningless contradiction, since God's highest will for our lives is communion with Him." (Renewal As A Way of Life, Richard Lovelace, p.147) 

Victory over sin is definitely a great desire for me, but why do I want it?  That might soun ...