Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. Psalm 42: 5, 11 and 43:5 Three times in these two Psalms, the writer admonishes himself. In D. Martin Lloyd-Jones book, Spiritual Depression, which I read years …
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Keeping Company
“Audience, audience, audience.” That’s what Dr. Morris at Parkland Junior College repeated in the Creative Non-Fiction class I took in spring, 2005. “Who is your audience? Are you writing for teenagers, Christians, Midwesterners, Asians, baby boomers, tattoo artists, working class, white collar, atheists?” “Who’s your client?” That’s what I learned in psychotherapy training. What’s on …
Kingdom Ready
The older I get the more I long for the end of the story, for the Kingdom fully come. Part of me is tired. That old part. And I’m not even 60. Like Lot in Sodom and Gomorrah, however, I’m tired of the rebellion. (2Peter 2:7) The conflict between God’s order and human disorder lies …