Remember God in the Darkness

Remember God in the Darkness

Have you ever found yourself walking through a circumstance that feels like what Psalm 23 refers to as “the valley of the shadow of death”? A season where the difficulty of your circumstances leaves you disoriented, as if in deep darkness. In the darkness, you begin...
The Resounding Witness of a Quiet Life

The Resounding Witness of a Quiet Life

When was the last time you experienced quiet? For most of us, our daily lives are anything but quiet. We live in a world of non-stop noise, information, entertainment, and distraction. We move at breakneck speeds from one thing to the next, seldom allowing a moment...
Work is Worship

Work is Worship

Why do you work? I’d never considered the question until a comment from my son forced me to reflect. I frequently find myself barrelling through our house tidying or opening my laptop to crank out email responses as if it’s a race. My son interrupted one of these...
The Slow Work of Spiritual Disciplines

The Slow Work of Spiritual Disciplines

When I began this paint-by-number I worked for several hours only to be discouraged by how blank the canvas looked at the end of those hours. While I’d spent hours tediously mixing colors and painting tiny details, it looked as if I’d done very little work....
Suffering

Suffering

As humans we are ever seeking to make meaning of the world around us. Moments of pain and suffering are no different. We tell ourselves that if we can make sense of why something is happening, we can endure it. As followers of Jesus we may be tempted to believe that...