May 2012
6 posts
Stay for the Crying
While I was cleaning the house today my daughter woke up crying.
I came into her room and asked what was wrong and she shook her head and cried. I asked again tenderly. She kept crying. Finally I told her, “London, when you figure out what’s wrong, Mommy will help you.” With that, I backed out the door.
Piling dishes into a crowded sink I thought about what I’d said. It...
“I just wonder what it would do in your heart and your mind if you really believe...”
– Matt Chandler (via kvcshutterbug)
I Want To Be a River. You Might Want To Be One,...
Last year I spent a lot of time working through what Peter meant when he wrote the words, “Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight.”
I loved the truth that inner...
Love Demands I Tell You About Love Does (and give...
If you only buy one book this year make it Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World. Wait a minute, if you’re only going to read one book this year you should not be using precious reading energy on my post. Go buy the book already and maybe you’ll have enough PRC (personal reading capacity) to read something else, too. Like maybe some Ann Voskamp or Michael...
Stunt Books: Can Change Be Forced?
I promised a review of Jen Hatmaker’s book 7 and here it is. Sort of.
What I really want to talk about isn’t so much the content or quality of the book (It’s a pretty well-executed treatise for living a simpler life in an excess culture) but rather the book’s hook.
It’s a stunt book.
Stunt books are driven by some sort of experiment. Maybe the author decides to...
Made Perfect Forever: Why God Doesn't Want You to... →
Check out the May issue of Virtuous Magazine. I wrote the article “Made Perfect Forever” to answer some questions I’d received about how to overcome guilt. Turns out, there’s not a lot of guilt in the Bible—not the kind we often feel, anyway.
