Why do you think Adam and Eve were concerned about uncovered genitals, but not bare arms, legs, noses, or ears?
With our touch, Jesus becomes our scapegoat. In his touch, Jesus takes our sin and absorbs our shame (Psalm 69:9; Romans 15:3), and we receive his righteousness. If you prefer symmetry in your relatio...
Worriers are visionaries minus the optimism.
Worry’s magnetic attraction can only be broken by a stronger attraction, and David is saying [in Psalm 27] we can only find that attraction in God Himself.
Yes, genuine pain and loss coexisted with the deliverance, but it did not have the last word. Its power to hurt him was weakened because he could see the bigger things God was doing in, for, and throu...
Yet weakness—or neediness—is a valuable asset in God’s community. Jesus introduced a new era in which weakness is the new strength. Anything that reminds us that we are dependent on God and other peop...
You barely realize what just happened. It is called faith. You just turned in Jesus’ direction and you are listening. You want what he offers.
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.
You don’t really know who you are until you have gone through suffering.
You never expected that God himself would, by his representatives, actually come close to unclean people and touch them. The Holy One is not human. The triune God is not human. Don’t limit God’s chara...
You will either fear God or other people. There are no other alternatives.
You would think that anyone would jump at the chance to escape shame. But that isn’t the way it happens. Though shamed people are happy to guide others out of their dark prisons, they are always sure...
Your future includes manna. It will come. There is no sense devising future scenarios now because God will do more than you anticipate.
[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...
A lingering sense that something was very wrong with him. That sense is called shame.
In view of God’s sovereign control, God will accomplish his purposes in our lives even when we make decisions we later regret.
Knew something about prayer, asked Jesus how to pray (Luke 11:1). Here is where prayer really
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...
Shamed people rarely take stands against injustice. Such a stand would mean they would have to go public, which would only double the shame. Instead, once we are shamed, most of us try to make sense o...
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