I remain stubbornly committed to this notion: God will always be better than our ideas of God.
02850 – God, Always Better…
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02848 – God’s One & Only Job Description
God’s one and only job description is to turn death into life. That’s what God does with every new springtime, every new life, every new season, every new anything.
02847 – Our Calling is Not to Point Fingers
Perhaps our calling in this moment isn’t to point fingers at the skeptics but to create a world where truth and love are so ever-present that skeptics no longer have to question if God is with us. from “Doubting Thomas”in "Stillspeaking Daily Devotional" (2020)
02841 – Repentance
REPENTANCE is not seen in tears; it is not seen in words; it is not seen in emotion. Repentance is long, slow, consistent change over an extended period of time because it is from the heart outward. Heart change is supernatural work.... REPENTANCE of habituated sin is...
02840 – Finding God
Any idiot can find God on a mountaintop--the real challenge is finding God in the company of others as annoying as me.
02835 – Beauty is about Honesty
Beauty has ample room to embrace not only what is attractive but also things that are disturbing and difficult for us to confront. Beauty has this capacity because it is inseparable from truth and goodness. Indeed, beauty is the persuasive power of God’s truth and...
02834 – God is Sovereign
I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and...
02828 – What is an Idol?
What is an idol? Any God who is mine but not yours. Any God concerned with me but not with you is an idol.
02827 – Knowing God
God approaches our minds by receding from them. We can never fully know Him if we think of Him as an object of capture, to be fenced in by our own ideas. We know Him better after our minds have let Him go. The Lord travels in all directions at once. The Lord arrives...
02822 – Moses’ Learning Curve
Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years learning what God can do with a nobody.