“God is very intentional, very active. God comes, God reveals, and God acts on our behalf. Amid God’s actions, there is something that begins to take place. We begin to believe that God’s activity is for our benefit, AND WE BECOME ACTIVE, AS WELL.”
Tag: God
God Cares (Comes Down)
“Do you know what it is when only God can help?”
Who Has Authority?
“When we want God to hear our pleas for our flesh and blood enemies to be destroyed by divine action, it ought to make sense for us now that God is not likely to answer such pleas.”
In a Snapshot
“It was glorious. In a snapshot, we all believed people’s lives were changed or being changed by the grace, mercy, truth & power of God that met them as they arose from the water with new life. Alleluia.”
A Faith of Pursuit
“Sell all that religiosity (you can’t even give the stuff away) before considering the actions and determinations of people like the suffering woman and Jairus. Consider the actions of people like this first. What do they do that makes all the difference?”
God’s Great Big Things
“These stories stir in us a passion to draw near to God and trust his will to truly be best for all of us, and God’s will is most dramatically seen and given to us in the words and life of Jesus Christ.”
A Simple Relationship
“He may not answer all your questions and ease all your concerns. My question then is why? Why is the answer he gives and the condition he leaves us not sufficient for us? He just wants us to be in relationship with him.”
Waiting for Everybody?
“It all started with one soldier taking a risk because he knew who he was, and he knew the Lord’s mode of operation was to save either by many or by few. Either by many or by few.”
Not Where It Ends
“We so often live our spiritual lives as those who search for a path of access to the God of our salvation. Such a pursuit or struggle wears us out in the long run. We then find meager contentment in believing we’re saved, and heaven is our home when we die. Scripture, however, conveys to us WE HAVE ACCESS TO THE GOD OF OUR SALVATION.”
That We Might Be Saved
“It is in grace, divine unmerited favor, that Jesus was lifted up to draw all the world to himself. It is in grace God so loved the world that he gave his son, and it is in grace that his light has come. When light exposes what is hidden, secrets no longer need to be covered because JESUS DID NOT COME TO CONDEMN THE SECRETS HIDDEN, THE EVIL DEEDS COVERED, BUT THAT WE MIGHT BE SAVED THROUGH HIM.”
Psalm 102 in The Message 