Key Truths - Page 11

Older woman with head scarf looking ahead, smiling

Look ahead with hope! Find more life than ever

Post published:February 26, 2021
Post category:Times and Seasons
Post last modified:June 13, 2025

You may come more than once to the place where it looks as though everything has come to an end. But God means there shall be more life than ever. – T.A. Sparks

Reminiscent of Lucy and Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia: A young girl with a big smile hugs a lion who is protecting her.

Fighting fear of loss with fear of the Lord

Post published:February 13, 2021
Post category:Times and Seasons
Post last modified:May 29, 2025

The Proverbs 31 woman shows us what other Scriptures teach us: When we fight fear of the future with the fear of the Lord, our God becomes to us a sanctuary.

Two large, antique globes stand side by side, each upheld by a heavy, walnut, four-footed frame. One globe depicts the earth. The other depicts a heavenly world.

Two globes in the Musee Hospice Comtesse, Lille, France, depict two worlds – the earth and the heavens.

Living in two worlds at the same time

Post published:February 8, 2021
Post category:Times and Seasons
Post last modified:May 29, 2025

Jesus died, rose and ascended so we can live in two worlds at the same time - the natural one we see physically, and the supernatural one we see by the Spirit.

A boy lies on a rough tarp on the ground, his knees drawn up, elbows out, hands behind his head, eyes closed, smiling.

Smiling into the unknown when times are tough

Post published:January 28, 2021
Post category:Times and Seasons
Post last modified:June 13, 2025

The Proverbs 31 woman could look to the future and smile. Realizing that, I wondered: Might turbulent times be key times to learn the laughter born of faith?

"We are better than this!" says a sign held high by a blonde woman in a cream coat and pink gloves. She stands near the rear of a crowd that has gathered under gray skies and leafless trees. Some others hold signs we cannot read.

Four questions – about Trump, Evangelicals, self-deception and the Civil War

Post published:January 6, 2021
Post category:From: We Confess!Healing from Toxic Church
Post last modified:May 21, 2025

A true story from the past it seems important to tell. Four questions about the present it seems important to ask.

Mist rises from yellow water, reflecting a hazy yellow sunrise sky. Dark trees behind the mist stand between sky and pond.

A sign and a wonder: The amazing grace cycle

Post published:December 5, 2020
Post category:From: The Esther Blessing
Post last modified:April 11, 2025

One wintry day, I finished the rough draft of a book manuscript titled, “The Esther Blessing.” The next morning, the God of all grace celebrated with me.

The bread and the cup: loaf of brown bread, with a piece cut off and broken in two, beside antique pewter goblet, on unpressed linen cloth

Mystery and life: The covenant meal

Post published:November 27, 2020
Post category:Knowing and Going with God
Post last modified:May 29, 2025

We who have confessed Jesus as Lord may have taken communion many times. But in observing the ritual – and gazing on the picture it paints – how often have we failed to plunge in?

Twin waterfalls flowing as one, in a lush green setting at Ricketts Glen State Park, Benton, Pennsylvania

The great righteousness-justice divide

Post published:October 24, 2020
Post category:From: We Confess!Healing from Toxic Church
Post last modified:May 21, 2025

Ultimately, collectively, the church quenched the Spirit’s voice in order to embrace the society’s values. The church began to preach - and to try to live - a righteousness unencumbered with justice. But. God.

Sun's piercing rays shining down through jungle canopy

Humble your soul, release your spirit

Post published:October 9, 2020
Post category:My Story Spirit-to-spirit with God
Post last modified:May 11, 2025

God saw my stifled spirit. He saw my confused soul. He’s teaching me to act on my spirit's yes even when my soul is screaming no. For then his life can flow.

Poppies by the seashore at dawn - one of them reaching up above the others and framed by the sun's light

So blinded for so long, I choose light

Post published:September 18, 2020
Post category:My Story Trauma and Grief
Post last modified:March 12, 2025

Even when people I love fight against it, I choose light. As I dare to go with God where fear, obligation and guilt forbid, I find hope and joy. I choose life.