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Love Cannot Be ‘This’ for ‘That’
I was reading through a book manuscript the other day, and it was making me think of a previous article I wrote about Job (“Job and the Deadly Spiritual Equation”). The author of this manuscript made a point that, while I already knew it conceptually, still drew me into wonder. Here it is, in my […]
God’s Patterns and Our Problems
God is a pattern-maker; we are pattern seekers. Patterns give us stability in a world that sometimes feels beyond every measure of our control. But patterns are also in place to help us interpret what happens to us. And interpretation is critical. Assigning a God-centered purpose and value (interpretation) to our experiences is what the […]
Disciplines of a Godly Man by R. Kent Hughes
Disciplines of a Godly Man is a spiritual classic, and one of the reasons why that’s the case is that it’s so well written. For me, that tends to be the difference between a “good” book and a “great” book. You’ll see some of this in my favorite quotes below. Hughes’s goal is to walk […]