Results tagged “faith”
Two Great Barriers to Faith (10/01/09 - 11 Comments)
Some time ago, no doubt while I was awake in the middle of the night with one of the children, I saw a documentary about some weird disease that causes a patient's skin to harden. This disease often sets in during childhood and causes the skin to become hard and shiny. I searched around to find the name of this condition and I think it must be "systemic sclerosis." "Dermatology Online Journal" describes it this...
The Practice of Trust (04/23/08 - 6 Comments)
Here is another excerpt from James Spiegel’s Gum, Geckos and God. This brief passage deals with how and why we trust God (or fail to trust God). The other day I was sitting in a faculty meeting, trying not to doze off during some committee reports. As I looked around, I mused over how much each of my colleagues understands about his or her discipline. It occurred to me that if there was a single...
The Fellowship of His Suffering (12/19/07 - 5 Comments)
Rebel soldiers were starting at one end of a large room, taking women away one by one and bringing them back after they were finished with them. Helen’s first impulse was to hide and not have to bear this humiliation again. Then she thought of Jesus. He put himself forward as a substitute for us. The fellowship of his sufferings—she moved to the front, to try to protect some of the other women from...
Desiring It Just a Little Bit Less (08/27/07 - 17 Comments)
It strikes me often how life is cyclical; how things I wrestle with and ponder and pray about will come to the forefront of my life and faith a month or a year or two years later. One of the biggest blessings of having a journal (which is often how this site functions for me) is that I can go back and see how I dealt with these things in the past. It is good...
Trusting the Instruments (08/15/07 - 7 Comments)
Trusting our instruments rather than our sight or instincts. A few months ago I was watching a program called "Mayday," which I believe is actually several other shows all rolled into one and branded for a Canadian audience. It is a show about disasters, and most notably, plane crashes. It sounds morbid, I admit, but I find it interesting (though I'll admit that it has made my children inordinately afraid of flying. They are now...