The Sacredness of the Common

Posted on by under Reggie McNeal

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

Brief Break

Posted on by under Miscellaneous, Website

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

The Reasonableness of Faith

Posted on by under John R. W. Stott

If it was reasonable for Job to trust the God whose wisdom and power have been revealed in creation, how much more reasonable is it for us to trust the God whose love and justice have been revealed in the cross? The reasonableness of trust lies in the known trustworthiness of its object. And no one is more trustworthy than the God of the Cross. The Cross assures us that there is no possibility of a miscarriage of justice or of the defeat of love either now or on the last day. “He who did not spare his own son, but gave him up for us all — how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?” (Rom. 8.32).

John R. W. Stott, The Cross of Christ (Downer’s Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2006), 320.