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“Why are you so afraid?” (Mark 4:40) What a great question, not only for the disciples but for each of us.   Fear has such a profound impact...

Weak is strong in the kingdom of God.   Never in my life have I felt as weak, as flawed, as fragile, and as vulnerable as I do these days, a...

  the kingdom of God is like a mustard seed from the smallest  of beginnings it grows within  until it is able  to offer life  and hope to a...

let me hear joy and gladness  let the bones  you have crushed rejoice fear and insecurity  are like guilt and shame always together  partner...

God often uses disruption and disorientation in our lives to jolt us out of our apparent self-sufficiency, so that he might give us himself ...

it is the failures that  fuel the successes the humiliations that  lead to true humility the desperation that leads to total surrender losin...

you see beyond the me i have become to the me you imagined you see beyond the ways i have been  deformed and defaced by the hurts i've e...