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  • God’s Faith

    This post originally appeared on my website www.orderingchaos.com, but it really belongs here. So I moved it. Christians think a lot about faith and admire those who exhibit great faith. Yet we also often follow the rest of our culture in reducing faith to believing a set of unprovable propositions about the nature of reality.…

  • Everything That Lives Must Struggle

    At first it was just numbers and addresses—things we used to write down on scraps of paper or in little black books. Then it was directions and names and faces. Our machines remembered as we forgot how to get from Saint Paul to Chicago and who we were with and why. Soon they told us…

  • Forsaken by God

    Those who know your name trust in you, for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you. -Psalm 9:10 God never forsakes those who trust him. So it is tempting to conclude when we feel forsaken that we have insufficient faith or we haven’t sought him enough. But Jesus himself felt forsaken: “My God,…