“God harden me against myself,
This coward with pathetic voice
Who craves for ease, and rest, and joys:
Myself, arch-traitor to myself;
My hollowed friend, my deadliest foe,
My clog whatever road I go.”
Christina Rossetti
Piper: “The devil only has two weapons: pain and pleasure. He will either hurt you so bad you hate God or give you so much pleasure you don’t need God. And the solution to both is the same. God is more precious than what I lose. God is more precious than what I gain.”
God wastes nothing.
No pain.
No trial.
No tears.
No suffering.
No betrayals.
None of it is wasted.
All of it is purposeful.
Child of God, keep trusting.
Soon we will be in the Land of sight and God will make all His mysteries plain.
Don’t lose heart, we’re almost Home.
Much is made of Peter’s blunders, but here’s something more important: whatever his failures, he always moved toward Jesus.
Walks on the water to join Jesus
Enters the courtyard to see Jesus
Runs to the tomb to find Jesus
Swims to the shore to be with Jesus
Whether you were delighted or disturbed by Rick Warren’s speech on the floor of the convention last week, this article is for you. I very much appreciate @9marks publishing it. #SBC22
https://t.co/cn1xfDmzjn
This is Irma Garcia.
When the gunman in Uvalde opened fire on her classroom, she physically shielded her students from the bullets.
At Goodable, we'll never mention the name of the gunman. But we'll mention Irma's all day long.
Irma Garcia.
Know her name.
I had three early pregnancy miscarriages and one stillborn son. Our church grieved with us in a memorial service for our son, Jasper Malachi. I've never, even for a moment, considered them anything but people made in God's image. I grieved deeply their deaths.
Reading The Last Battle to my boys and noticed this time the impact of spiritual abuse of the "false aslan" on the dwarfs and I almost cried. I told my boys, we see this everyday in real life. False teaching using God's name does damage.
“His heart beats, His blood begins to flow
Waking up what was dead a moment ago
And His heart beats, now everything is changed
'Cause the blood that brought us peace with God
Is racing through His veins”
- Andrew Peterson