On Faith
Our mourning is only the middle of the story. That’s what makes mourning hard but beautiful.
In short, there's always an ordinary role left for man to play before God's intervention.
We must participate in our own transformation. Do the ordinary, God will do the extraordinary.
STEP OUT IN FAITH.
Make a move and God will back you up.
@MinisterSidoniatwitter.comHow many intellectuals do we know who will not let God into their mind because it isn’t big enough to hold Him?
Jackie Hill Perry • Upon Waking
God has called us to do much. It is a grace to be a laborer in a plentiful harvest, but there must be time given and rhythms created where we withdraw from the crowd, find a desolate place, and do nothing but pray.
Jackie Hill Perry • Upon Waking
The God disclosed in Jesus and testified to in the Hebrew Scriptures is no respecter of gender, religion, or nationality. He is especially attentive to widows and children. Though the Sidonians were despised by the Israelites, who would have annihilated them if the tribe of Asher had carried out its assignment, they were precious in God’s sight and
... See moreC. S. Cowles, Eugene H. Merrill, Daniel L. Gard, Tremper Longman III • Show Them No Mercy
Wesleyan theologian Thomas A. Noble rightly suggests that the starting point in forming a truly Christian theology is not what the Bible teaches about God in general but what Jesus reveals about God in particular.
C. S. Cowles, Eugene H. Merrill, Daniel L. Gard, Tremper Longman III • Show Them No Mercy
what a mercy it is to be questioned by God. It is evidence of love. The all-knowing God wants us to know and be known.
Jackie Hill Perry • Upon Waking
Go, then, and do not be afraid. Do not be upset with people, do not take offense at their wrongs. Forgive the dead man in your heart for all the harm he did you; be reconciled with him truly. If you are repentant, it means that you love. And if you love, you already belong to God … With love everything is bought, everything is saved. If even I, a
... See moreLarissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
You may never know the reason of your suffering, but you can know the Ruler.