Posts tagged God
Wrestling the Angels
Thoughts and Ramblings of a Struggling Christian
Your most profound and intimate experiences of worship will likely be in your darkest days — when your heart is broken, when you feel abandoned, when you’re out of options, when the pain is great — and you turn to God alone.
Do not judge. You don’t know what kind of storms God asked them to walk through.
What do we do when the foolishness of the cross actually makes more sense than the wisdom of the sword? What if a fragile world is more attracted to God’s vision of interdependence and sacrificial sharing than to the mirage of independence and materialism? What do we do when we are the ones who have gone sane in a crazy world?
Dear Christian: If the Thought of Either Romney or Obama Getting Elected Makes You Fearful, Angry, or Depressed, You Have What we Call a Theological Problem
I am not a pawn in God’s plan. I am a child in God’s arms. The difference between those two things is devastatingly beautiful.
I was watching a documentary recently in which a church leader said something along the lines of this:
“Your love for God is mainly driven by your fear of hell.”
And I thought to myself, “Well, that just seems wrong. It doesn’t seem Biblical at all. I thought the whole point of being given the choice between Jesus and Satan was so that we could truly love instead of being forced into it. There should be no fear about choosing freely.”
So there it is… there is no fear in love. The Word of God says so.
