When Someone You Love Is Depressed
You want to help. Someone you love has gone somewhere inside themselves that you cannot follow. Your instinct is to fix. Yet this is often the least useful in the room with depression.
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When You Are Angry at God
You probably will not say it out loud. You may not have said it to yourself yet. You have only felt it. Anger. At God. And you were raised, somewhere along the way, to believe this is the one emotion Christians are not allowed to have.
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When the World Won't Settle
This is the world the Bible was written for. Most of us have been quietly assuming that stability is the baseline. It is not. The Scriptures are letters from the same trouble we are now in.
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The Stones He Did Not Forget
The stoning of Paul at Lystra. It is hard to read it without thinking that Paul, lying in the dust outside the city, may have remembered another stoning — one he had once stood by and approved of.
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The Contract You Never Signed
Most of us were never handed the terms explicitly. We absorbed them slowly, in Sunday school and sermon illustrations and the quiet pressure of being around people who seemed to have it together. The contract felt real. The problem is that God never signed it.
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