No Answers At this point in the book of Job, it’s obvious that God isn’t going to fix anything quickly. We’d settle for a trade-off here, at least some kind of explanation for the chaos that has struck Job’s life. But apparently it isn’t the time for answers. Instead, Job gets a visit from three [...]
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With Friends Like These…
Posted in Old Testament, Sin, spirituality, tagged Friends, Job on October 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Pain
Posted in Old Testament, Sin, spirituality, tagged Job, Pain on October 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Pain of Every Kind Job 1:12 is downright chilling. It marks the release of Satan to ultimately do whatever he wanted with Job (short of killing him). Where else could this go but untold suffering? In fact, the evil spirit inflicted on the poor man nearly every category of pain known to our race. Job [...]
What goes in, must come out.
Posted in New Testament, Spiritual depth, spirituality, Supremacy of Christ, tagged Colossian, Garbage in, Garbage Out, Supremacy of Christ on August 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Far End of the Pipe God intends this simple principle whenever and wherever the truth of Scripture is made known to us: What goes in, must come out! Colossians presents this flow of thought, first unveiling Christ in the highest, most transcendent way. That revelation trickles into our concepts, changing the way we think of Him and [...]
Fishers of Men: Starting Where You Are.
Posted in New Testament, Responsibility, spirituality, The church, tagged Fishermen on June 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s hard to say what most of us expected when we first started following Christ. Certainly there are a number of glittering promises. And then there are some “brown” ones–less shiny, it seems, to the disinterested reader, but incredibly important to those of us who look for purpose in Christ. Scared of Fishing Jesus said [...]
Real Progress
Posted in spirituality, Uncategorized, tagged John Myer, Spiritual depth, spiritual disciplines, spiritual growth, spiritual maturity, spirituality on April 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The whole idea of spiritual progress is elusive to say the least. It’s hard to measure. Most of us mistake it as being synonymous with the ability to kick up a great cloud of dust when speaking of spiritual concepts, etc., you know, mainly stuff we’ve read or heard elsewhere. So we’re going to tackle this difficult [...]
Baseball Card Theology
Posted in spirituality, tagged John Myer, prayer, Spiritual depth, spiritual disciplines, spiritual growth, spirituality on April 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As we penetrate the idea of deeper living with an emphasis on prayer, the obvious keeps coming to the surface: prayer can only be studied so much. Then you just have to do it. In fact, you can talk about a great many things in the Christian life, like gospel preaching or good works, but there’s a line [...]
