Anxiety, Depression, and the Christian Life
We can humbly and eagerly approach God with anything we are battling.
We can humbly and eagerly approach God with anything we are battling.
Love for others springs from love for God. It isn’t complicated, nor is it easy.
It would seem right for us to learn what it means to “outdo one another in showing honor.”
Whenever you lead, you will encounter criticism.
There are times when initiatives are advanced in Christian organizations by sheer force of personality.
That deep yearning and desire for something we lack … can only be filled by Christ.
Faith is not simply an intellectual decision, but an act.
Time, I have often assumed, is short, and matters urgent. Nothing can be dropped or ignored.
We are a community that has already dedicated all we are and have to Him.
We can’t become more spiritually fit while leaving certain sorts of Christian content in our “cupboards.”
When we accept Christ, we become members of his body and commit ourselves to contribute to the corporate witness of Christ’s body.
There is a way that seems wise to humankind … and sometimes we need to ignore it.
It seems to me that we are living in a moment in which we need to find signals in the midst of the noise.
After years of pushing myself beyond my own personal limits, it finally became clear
that I needed to stop chasing performance and start getting comfortable with who I am.
When we can’t or are unable to ask new questions or consider new answers, we limit our field of vision.
In doing so, we run the risk of missing the possibilities God provides…of confusing our partial story of God with one that is complete.
While we may not know God’s will for every page of our life story, we do know the Author of our story;
God promises that He is with us always and that every turn of the page has a purpose.
Generous speech is not naive. It doesn’t deny evidence or shy away from discussing bad acts.
Generous speech does, however, exercise restraint.
Outcomes, whether positive or negative, and the situations that arise from them offer fresh opportunities for God’s people to be faithful.
It seems to me that we are living in a moment in which we need to find signals in the midst of the noise. We need to master the art of driving in the rain.
We are free to walk obediently with our God even when we don’t understand where He is taking us.
It can be tempting to think that the first step in inspiring change is vision.
To put it in terms of debt, we seem content to continue spending on credit while our knowledge debt continues to grow.
When you are driving in a heavy rainstorm, the rain is a distraction. It obscures our normal field of vision and forces us to look for new signs.
As Christians, I believe we need to commit to do the hard work of discerning how to engage the opinions of others.