Exulting in God's Magnificent Love for Us
“Be like a tree… Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Both are necessary for life.” -Rumi My beloved grandmother, Pattima, died in the first week of December over a decade ago and my family’s hearts were broken as we loved her so much. We had a memorial service here at Read More …
https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/the-priceless-gift-in-every-trial Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds . . . (James 1:2) In and of themselves, our hardships are emphatically not joyful. That’s part of what makes them hard. What could it mean, then, in circumstances like these, to “count it all joy”? When James charges us to “count Read More …
For not even His brothers believed in Him (John 7:5). Then Jesus went home, and once again a crowd gathered, so that He and His disciples could not even eat. And when His family heard it, they went out to seize Him, for they were saying, “He is out of his mind.” (Mark 3:20-21). I Read More …