Tried With Fire

I'd vote for her:

Lord willing, I will be reviewing Hannah Anderson's new book,  Humble Roots , in a couple weeks. I have not finished reading the entire book yet, but this passage was too good not to share: "Failure at small things reminds us of how helpless we are in this great, wide world. When little things spiral out of control, they remind us that even they were never within our control in the first place. And this is terrifying. Jesus understood this. He understood that small things can unsettle us more than large things; so when He called the people of Galilee to leave their anxiety—when He calls us to do the same— He does so in context of very mundane, very ordinary concerns." Read the rest here .

This attribute renders God a fit object for trust and dependence. The notion of an unholy and unrighteous God, is an uncomfortable idea of him, and beats off our hands from laying any hold of him. It is upon this attribute the reputation and honor of God in the world is built; what encouragement can we have to believe him, or what incentives could we have to serve him, without the lustre of this in his nature? The very thought of an unrighteous God is enough to drive men at the greatest distance from him; as the honesty of a man gives a reputation to his word, so doth the holiness of God give credit to his promise. It is by this he would have us stifle our fears and fortify our trust (Isa. 41:14): “Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the Lord, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:” he will be in his actions what he is in his nature. Nothing shall make him defile his own excellency; unrighteousness is the ground of mutability; but the promi...

C3PO Crashes a Pentecostal Revival:

It's been a while since I've posted regularly. Life has been very full in a good way, and that is where my priorities need to be. I have a couple posts in the works, but they need a little more meditation and marinating. So in lieu of a "real" post here are some things I have been thinking: 1. We don't need to learn patience or kindness if everyone gets it right all the time. Maybe we should stop expecting people to not be normal human beings with normal human frailty and struggles. After all, 1 Corinthians 13 isn't just for weddings. 2. A curmudgeonly character may be funny, even endearing, in a novel, but I don't want to be like that as I get older. See 1. 3. All Christians are not like Mr. Great-Heart in Pilgrim's Progress. Mr. Ready-to-Halt was received at the Celestial City, too. See 1. 4.  Our stories are very real, but they are not normative. My bad experience doesn't invalidate your good one. But just because you haven't walked...

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