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March 16, 2021
Why Are You Breathing? It’s Not about You
With every breath you take in, oxygen from the air leaches out from your lungs into your blood stream. At the same time, carbon dioxide creeps out of those dark, silent rivers and into the caverns of your lungs. From there it moves back into the world. You do this about 20,000 times a day. Why? At […]
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March 5, 2021
3 Obstacles to Giving
This is part of a series of posts on giving, all in light of the release of my latest book. In this post, we look at three obstacles that can keep us from giving, and the effect that has on our spirit. Check out the other articles in the series to learn more. God the […]
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February 19, 2021
How God Owns by Giving
I read a very striking quote some time ago. It was written by Douglas Meeks. “God owns by giving.”1 Think about that for a moment. When we think about ownership, other words come to mind: possessing, taking, buying, keeping. But giving? How is that possible? In a mysterious and beautiful way, it’s possible with love. […]
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February 4, 2021
The Giving Circle: Are You in?
In a previous post, I talked about the circular nature of giving, about how all of our gifts end up being given back to God. This needs repeating and application for us daily, since we seem bent on following what I call a transactional approach to giving. Before I get to that, let me review […]
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January 3, 2021
Sensing God by Joel Clarkson
Joel Clarkson’s Sensing God was a breath of fresh air for me. It can be easy for Christian readers to lump sensory experience into the category of “flesh” or “things of the world.” This makes our sensory experiences (taste, touch, smell, sight, hearing) immediately suspect when sin is present. But while senses can be avenues […]
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December 26, 2020
The Mystery of the Trinity by Vern Poythress
Some books are worth a slow and prayerful read. I’ve studied the work of Vern Poythress for years, and I’ve spent countless hours in his office, talking about Kenneth Pike and the Trinity. He’s become a friend whose footsteps I follow in for my own approach to theological issues. But I didn’t quite know how […]
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December 18, 2020
God the Giver: Where Giving Is Meant to Go
Christmas is synonymous with giving. Some people estimate that the average American will spend around $800 in 2020 on Christmas gifts. That’s somewhere north of 465 billion dollars for the nation. That’s a lot of money. Where does it all go? Well, one study found that 16 billion dollars are wasted each year on unwanted […]
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December 8, 2020
Finding New Life in Your Anxiety
I have been working through Paul Miller’s excellent book J-Curve. It’s life-changing if you understand and then apply what he’s saying (which is really what the Apostle Paul is saying, which is really what Jesus is saying). As I read, I’ve been reminded of how anxiety, which I’ve long dealt with, can actually be a […]
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October 25, 2020
Absoluteness, Infinity, and Ocean Waves
God’s attributes can seem like suns we stare at. They’re so big and bright that we can’t look at them for more than a moment. Unfortunately, that also means we have a very hard time letting their light shine fully into the ordinary moments of our souls. In this post and many to follow, I […]
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October 23, 2020
You Need Stillness So That You Can Give
Like most people, I’m prone to the dazed distraction of our time. The pixels and the streaming, the windows into other worlds, the messages and, sometimes, mirages of connection. We’re wired into spheres of life that are distant from us—a blessing and a curse. One element of the curse is a loss of stillness. It’s […]
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