“Under the old system, the high priest brought the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, and the bodies of the animals were burned outside the camp. So also Jesus suffered and died outside the city gates to make his people holy by means of his own blood. So let us […]
“Wherever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure vanishes from the Christian church. With its recovery will come unsuspected power.” ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer I still remember the ache, the hunger, the thirst, the desperation that drove me to Jesus in my teens… I remember the fear. The fear that needed casting out by His perfect […]
I was so upset… so hurt and grieved and discouraged and frustrated, so hopeless and helpless… I just wanted to vomit. For days I’d been feeling this way, walking around under a black cloud that wouldn’t lift. Couldn’t lift. This was a couple of years ago. I’d been fasting and praying for our nation and the […]
Let it go. Sometimes it can sound trite. Too easy an answer for some pretty difficult and complicated problems. Or it may seem to suggest that we’re walking away from — simply abandoning — people or situations or responsibilities that are overwhelming to us. Earlier this week, I shared how I’ve been finding freedom in […]
I still remember what it was like when I first fell in love with Jesus. To some people, I know that this kind of language is unfamiliar or uncomfortable, but it’s the language of Scripture, the language that His people have used for centuries to describe what is truly indescribable. Call it poetic imagery or […]
