Suffering Remastered

Look around and you’ll quickly identify suffering, grief, and injustice. Maybe you’ve experienced some of these things yourself – a difficult season, a profound injustice, a deep grief. Suffering rarely makes sense. And the hard truth is most of our questions...

Evil

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Isaiah 5:20 NASB If we cannot correctly identify evil, we cannot reliably distinguish righteousness from...

Born After Midnight

Weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning. Psalm 30:5b NIV There is an old Christian expression, born after midnight, describing spiritual growth and renewal that emerge from seasons of darkness, struggle, prayer, and waiting upon God.Midnight...

He Will Not Snuff Out a Smoldering Wick

“A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering wick He will not snuff out. In faithfulness He will bring forth justice.” Isaiah 42:3 NIV; Matthew 12:20 Here is the Shepherd’s mercy, drawn in two brushstrokes: He meets the weak where they are. A reed already...

What Is The Question?

See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. Ephesians 5:15-17 NKJV The question is “What does obedience look like in this...

Delayed Obedience Is Disobedience

Whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. James 4:17 ESV If a person knows the right thing to do and yet does not do it, such sin of omission is no less condemned than sin of commission.