The joy of God has gone through the poverty of the manger and the agony of the cross; that is why it is invincible, irrefutable.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) in a letter to suffering friends in Christmas, 1942 as WWII raged
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Sing We Now of Christmas
Are Your Prayers Confused?
God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.
Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2011), 50.
The Christmas Psalms
Moral Insanity
Pride, conceit, vanity are forms of moral insanity.
W. Graham Scroggie, Psalms (Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1973), 274.
The Christmas Psalms
The Sacredness of the Common
Submitting to God’s work in the commonplace of life recognizes that heart-shaping does not go on and off the clock. God remains attentive to our hearts, to what we are becoming, even if we ourselves are not (nor can we always be)…. If God is always paying attention, there is no room to hide. Those who segment life sometimes do so to avoid dealing with the sacredness of the commonplace.
Reggie McNeal, A Work of Heart (San Francisco: Jossei-Bass, 2011), 178.
The Christmas Psalms
One Reason Why God Allows Trials
God suffers questions oftentimes to arise for trial of our love and exercise of our abilities. Nothing is so certain as that which is certain after doubts. Shaking settles and roots.
Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2011), 28.
The Christmas Psalms
Preacher, Preach As You Should Preach!
One Small Child
On This Day Earth Shall Ring
Brief Break
Dear Life Is Worship reader, I want to thank you for your readership and support over the past several years. I need to take a brief break. My family has a serious situation to address (which is why I haven’t posted anything this week), and blogging will have to take a back seat temporarily. I plan to resume posts on Monday, December 15. A few posts may appear between now and then because they were created a while ago.
If you would, please say a prayer for God’s all-sufficient grace for us in our time of weakness.
God bless!
Matt
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