Tag: gift
Confession
Avoid. Withdrawal. Elude. These three actions have taken the AWE out of my life. The moment I walked across the stage on December 17, 2016, to grab my empty degree shell, a large part of me dove into the most remote cavern of my soul. Once there, my imagination remained curled in the fetal position. ...
Moments of beauty…
“Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.” ― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism The other night, I was talking with a friend about an author's work. I like this author--he writes about humanity's harshness and desire for power without constructing a plot line that buries the heart of his message under fluff and rhetorical ...
One another
"Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise. Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the ...
How Long
2 Corinthians 5:18-20 "And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him. For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message ...
Intercessor
Romans 8:26-27 "In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with ...