Maybe we failed to see how our stories, today in July of 2022, play a specific role in God’s overarching story.
When Your Life As a Christian Feels Mediocre
Tag: life
Finding My Place in God’s Story
Finding God’s will for our lives is not as difficult as we like to make it, but it’s not always very clear, either. It often feels more like an impression than a lightning bolt, and that’s okay.
When we are looking for “life,” what do we mean?
What if the feelings and tensions we feel at the surface—too focused on externals, not allowed to use instruments, too robotic, not kind enough—are actually pricking at something much deeper in our souls that we don’t have the words to describe…so we use the word life?
Jesus: more than just an answer to our problems
If the hope of the gospel of Jesus was merely that everything bad would be made right, it would get depressing because everything bad doesn’t necessarily get made right.
Everything Good Now Broken
Because God is not a control freak, and because he longs for mutual desire and gives us the freedom to choose, and because we chose to be gods ourselves, we’re living in a world broken from such a perfect relationship with our creator.
Reckless
What happened that causes us to wrestle with lust and pornography? Why is it that we experience pain and sometimes hurt others, ourselves? Because we have chosen to listen to another person’s voice instead of God’s.
But instead of giving us what we deserve (death), God has taken personal responsibility for restoring us back to His original design. He’s done something reckless, in our human way of looking at it. Without it, we have no hope.
10 Bold Predictions about the Millennial Generation of Anabaptists
The generation before us laid the groundwork for rethinking the way we do church—the way we do life, really. Because of our parents, many of us are free to question the status quo. We are free to revisit the methodology of church, romance, family, discipleship, and with that revisiting, comes radical possibilities. Some good, some not good.
No, You Don’t HAVE to Read the Bible
What if the modern approach to Scripture isn’t what God intended for it? What if saying you can only know God through knowing the Bible cripples people from knowing Him at all?
Today, more than ever we need to be grounded in Truth, but the way we worship the black, white and leather of the Bible doesn’t help us become anymore grounded.
When we put the Bible on a pedestal it was never supposed to have, we actually cultivate contempt for Truth and turn people away from God. In this post, I expose the wrong way to use the Bible, explain the right way, and share how to tell the difference.
A Word to the Wise about Finding God’s Will for Your Life
Discovering God’s plan, His unique will for you and I, our destiny—whatever you want to call it—is a journey. One just like sports teams take to mature and become championship quality. It’s not as basic as whispering a few prayers and poof! Now we know what to do.
So what can we learn about this journey in discovering God’s will for our lives?
By the very fact that it’s a journey, I’m sure it takes a lifetime to learn. But following are a few thoughts I have about the journey thus far.
God Brings about Our Greatest Change in Life through Difficult Times
Authors Note: This is a guest post by my friend Emily Smucker. Emily loves to learn, but it hasn’t always been that way. It took a difficult experience for God to help her learn to love learning. For a few years she struggled with West Niles virus and wrote about it in her book Emily (Check it out on […]
Those “Mismatched” Details God Allows into Your Life Have Unique Purpose
Authors Note: This is a guest post by my sister Kristi. She is a beautiful women of God who has learned how to walk in constant surrender to God’s design of her story. She inspires me! I pulled the useless, colorful creation from the deep recesses of the box I was sorting through and burst […]
Success: the right picture of it and how to get there
When I was in High School, I thought success meant that you make a plan to get something and get it. You want a degree? Map out your school track and start studying. Once you get your degree you’ll be successful. There’s a lot of talk in our culture about knowing what we’re going to do with our […]
