[Part 2 of a four-part adaptation of my message, “Our Daily Bread.”] To begin with, some of you might point out that in Matthew 6:8, Jesus says, “Your Father knows what you need before you ask him,” which echoes Psalm 139:4—“Even before a word is on my tongue, O Lord, you know it completely”—so why even …
[Part 1 of a four-part adaptation of my message, “Our Daily Bread.”] I remember writing letters to Santa along with the rest of my elementary school classmates, asking for things that we wanted. I don’t even remember what I asked for, but I do remember one year—when I was about 8 or 9—staying up till …
I love my mom.
Starets Zosima, from Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov: At some thoughts one stands perplexed, above all at the sight of human sin, and wonders whether to combat it by force or by humble love. Always decide ‘I will combat it by humble love.’ If you resolve on that once and for all, you can conquer the …
In the last couple of weeks, I’ve been so humbled and encouraged by the ways that God has stepped up and provided, through many of you. On several fronts, I’ve been reminded that God is faithful and does answer prayer: In the last two weeks, in response to the email ask I sent out, almost twenty people have …