Author: S&P
Diversity and Friendship
Diversity: the condition of having or being composed of differing elements; variety. (Merriam-Webster Dictionary) The word diversity is not in the Bible. And though not in the Bible, God’s word is filled with diverse descriptions of people, God’s created and image-bearing people. God, himself, is diverse as the triune God—three in one person. Diversity is found throughout the pages of Genesi...
Weakness Is the Way
In The House at Pooh Corner, the second of A. A. Milne’s enchanting collections of Winnie-the-Pooh’s adventures, we meet fussy mother Kanga, who deems it vital that, whatever else he does, her happy-go-lucky, into-everything offspring Roo should regularly take his strengthening medicine. Why? To grow up strong, of course. And what does that mean? Strength is physical, moral, and relational. Strong...
6 Steps to Making Your Testimony Boring
Don’t you hate people who only want to talk about themselves? You know the type. They’re fascinated by themselves: their talents, their achievements, and precisely how incredible they are. Change the subject as many times as you want, and somehow it always come back to them. Boring isn’t it? We hate having to listen to people talk about themselves all the time. It gets in the way of talking ...
Ruth: Sex, Race, and God’s Sovereignty
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from A Sweet & Bitter Providence: Sex, Race, and the Sovereignty of God by John Piper (Crossway). Ruth is a very old book. The events took place over three thousand years ago. Could it be relevant and helpful for your life? I think so. The sovereignty of God, the sexual nature of man, and the gospel never change. And since God is still sovereign...
How Can I Have Assurance of Salvation?
You can have assurance of salvation when you believe that salvation is not your doing, but God’s act of redemption in Jesus Christ, conceived before the foundation of the world, a sacred agreement between the Persons of the Triune God, and carried out by God through the mysteries of His providence in real time. Once Saved Always Saved? The lack of assurance in salvation is, regrettably, a common p...
4 Areas to Create Margin and Find Abundance
Holly Hawes writes about creating healthy margins in order to find the abundant life Jesus offers.
Desperate for God
We don’t need much to serve God – we need willing hearts and open minds, but as with most things we complicate it. Recently, it feels as if I’m spinning plates and failing miserably. As long as I have breath, I plan to live my life to the fullest with God’s help. So there’s new goals, new adventures, new tasks even at this stage of the game. One thing I’ve ...
fly
Doubt queries her,hawk eyeing its prey.Is this good enough?Unique enough?Lovely, worth noticing?Her very life a question,wingless bird in her hands.And yet majesty of truth,strength in being small,are Poor in Spiritturned right thereon its head.Pivot! Breathe!Open your fists!And the bird,its wings solid andstrong, turns its faceto the sun and flies. This post appeared originally at jenniferjcamp.c...
Managing Marriage and Ministry
www.insideoutwithcourtnaye.org I’m going to start this post by saying that managing marriage and ministry is NOT easy. Yet, it can...
10 Things Christians Argue about That Won’t Matter in Heaven
Freedom is in knowing who you are in Christ and being able to let things go. It’s refusal to walk in offense and being quick to forgive. It is in the being slow to speak and even slower to anger. Freedom is in knowing that you don’t hold a grudge from a wrongdoing in the past that would potentially weigh you dow...
the crack
You see the crack in the cup,the jagged scar like lightning piercing stormy sky.Fingers trace the lines etched from collisionof counter and ceramic and stone.But it holds still, my coffee steaming,and I remember how beautiful are scars that tell a storyfor I like the way you tell it, the untwisting oftruth until it straightens outand it is all I ever see. —jennifer j. camp This post appeared origi...
Trusting God When Things Are Uncertain
www.insideoutwithcourtnaye.org I can admit that trusting God is not always as simple as it seems when things are uncertain (especially when you’re staring the problem right in the face and you can’t see your way clearly through). I know, bec...
