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One question that consistently comes up in conversations I have with people is why does God allow suffering. It's one thing when that question is coming from the realm of ideas. It is a much deeper thing when someone asks that question out of the place of personal experience: unemployment issues, the loss of a …
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The second thought of my reflections from reading Scripture the other day is this: Jesus is the Lamb. In Revelation chapter five, when the elder directs John to see the "Lion of Judah" who is alone worthy to open the scroll of God, John sees something quite unexpected. He does not see a lion at …
When reading Scripture the other day, there were two parallel thoughts that leaped out of Amos and Revelation to capture my mind. The first is this: Jesus is the Lion. The LORD roars from Zion and thunders from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds dry up, and the top of Carmel withers. (Amos 1:1) The …
I’ve been thinking about my body a lot recently. I know that sounds weird – maybe even a bit psychotic – but give me a minute here. I’ve been thinking about my body and the fact that I live in it. I know, this sounds even more like I need to go to the nut-house …
Donald Miller, author of Blue Like Jazz and, more recently, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, has become a helpful voice to many within contemporary Christian writing. Miller is a writer of memoirs, "narratives composed of personal experience" according to Merriam-Webster. He works out what Frederick Buechner, one of my favorite authors, meant when …
Matthew Erickson 