Modern spirituality has no hell, no doctrine, no substance. It is about feeling.
Notice how those who have medicated away their hardships with illegal drugs, alcohol, or sex can seem immature. They may look forty-five, but they have the character of an adolescent. Find a person wh...
O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding...
The desire is overwhelming. Why? Because there is availability without accountability.
Our fears have typically already decided that the worst is about to happen. Catastrophe is upon us and there is no hope. But Don’t be afraid, when spoken by the Lord, is a promise that the end will be...
Our goal is to love people more than need them. We are overflowing pitchers, not leaky cups.
People who have experienced war have learned to accept the trials and sufferings of life. Among many wise, older citizens in American society, there is no desperate flight from suffering. Instead, the...
Shame lives in the community, though the community can feel like a courtroom. It says, You don’t belong—you are unacceptable, unclean, and disgraced because You are wrong, you have sinned (guilt), or...
Shame’s hold over you leads you to believe you don’t deserve to be rid of shame. As a result, you treat hope as if it were a contaminated substance.
The basic idea is to focus on the matchless worth of the Lord God and then get connected to him.
The character of God is the basis for our connection to him, not our intrinsic worth. Self-worth, or anything we think would make us acceptable to God, would suit our pride but it has the disturbing s...
The rule of thumb is that if someone is able to be verbally or physically abusive, he or she is able to understand that the behavior is wrong.
There is something about uncleanness that asks for blood.
Through our struggles and pain, we are being offered perseverance, the character of God. Hardships are intended to give us a spiritual makeover, that we may share in his holiness (Heb. 12:10). Therefo...
You can’t have a deeper relationship if you won’t allow yourself to be known. All
You don’t really know who you are until you have gone through suffering. We can measure our spiritual growth by the way we behave under pressure.
[Screwtape warns Wormwood] Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy’s [God’s] will, looks around upon a universe from which every t...
Others, and so on. And anything that is opposed to God in our lives is actually one of the many gods of the kingdom of earth. You will always be running scared if you worship other gods, because idols...
All it takes is a tradition of demeaning, critical words from the right person. All it takes is nothing from the right person. No interest in you, no words spoken to you, no love. If you are treated a...
God, open my ears. I don’t clearly hear your care and compassion when you tell me not to worry or be afraid, but I know they are there. Father, open my eyes. I act like I see all reality. I act like I...
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