The wish I hear most parents say they want for their children is happiness. It makes me sad really, because so often they don’t know what they are talking about. They haven’t thought about true happiness themselves, so they don’t know how to offer it to their children. And so in pursuit of happiness, families [...]
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Where Are You?
This is the question that God asks Adam after he partook of the forbidden fruit. We are going through Genesis in my Bible study now, and we have come to the Fall. Today these words from God really shocked me. They are so gracious! I can’t imagine the fear overtaking Adam and Eve as they [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Why This Odd Fella Can Be Hard to Love
Have you ever learned or taught a spiritual truth, only to then be challenged by it and fail? Just this weekend, I was deeply moved as I was typing these words for something else I am working on, “Sanctification is not about becoming a so-called better Christian; it is about knowing Christ better.” I typed [...]
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This is usually a positive statement, but it didn’t turn out that way for David. I’m sure you are familiar with the clever confrontation Nathan the prophet had with Kind David in 2 Samuel 12:1-15. I’ve been reflecting on it this week. First of all, there’s a little history. We see Nathan introduced earlier in [...]
Read the rest of this entry »The Christian Creed in One, Short Psalm, Part 2
In Part 1 of The Christian Creed, I shared how Puritan Edward Reynolds (1599-1676) referred to Psalm 110 as “’symbolum Davidicum’, the prophet David’s creed” (The Whole Works of Right Reverend Edward Reynolds, Vol. 2). This Psalm, containing a mere seven verses, reveals the Christian confession of faith. So in my last article, I briefly [...]
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Puritan Edward Reynolds (1599-1676) referred to Psalm 110 as “’symbolum Davidicum’, the prophet David’s creed” (The Whole Works of Right Reverend Edward Reynolds, Vol. 2). This Psalm is quoted more than any Psalm in the New Testament, and there is some recent scholarship suggesting that Hebrews is a sermon based on this Psalm. In a [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Now I’m Aimee, Down to Sleep*
Every night as a child I said the same bedtime prayer. You know the ditty: Now I lay me down to sleep; I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. And then came the barrage of “God blesses.” When I began [...]
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Now we walk by faith, but then we will have sight. Now we are given the written Word of God to study, sit under its preaching, meditate on, and pray. We are given the church of believers, the body of Christ, and the testimony of those who went before us. We are given the means [...]
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If you’ve read any Flannery O’Connor, you are aware of her proclivity to take the reader into the darkness of humanity amidst the everyday, mundane life. She shows us that maybe our ordinary is familiar and common, but it is anything but unexceptional. We discover much about ourselves and the condition of our souls from [...]
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