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His childhood passed in quiet anxiety.
Desire, if it is to be trusted, is to be inspired by a holy vocabulary.
Only he who cries out for the persecuted Jews can sing Gregorian chants. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
we're using our freedoms to break the bonds of community, which have long held us together.
How do you fill the space between, "God says it," and, "I believe it,"?
Do we want a master, or shall we have a genie whose command is our wish? This is the tension of desire - and the test of revelation.
Kingdom is a signpost to the holy.
Sometimes God seems to be killing us when He is actually saving us.
The Christian story, centered as it is on the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the only story for making sense of desire and loss.
Every act of seizure is an act of grace.
A solitary Christian who thinks he can live independently of the church functions about as well as a thumb severed from its hand.
God is the I AM that I AM not the I AM that we wish.
We want. Life leaks. Desires are disappointed. And God, our Father, remains eternally good.
Dinner is a cacophonous exercise of holy sanctification.
In asking for God's provision, we're admitting our inability to self-sustain.
God, by his own efforts and unflagging energy, recalibrates our heart's desire for his kingdom.
Part of the practice of modest faith, in times of suffering, is relinquishing our right to answers. God has never promised to explain himself, but he has promised to stay near. I will never leave, he says; I will never forsake. I am the friend that sticks closer than your brother. Do not think me unmoved by your grief. These are the faithful assurances of God as we have them in Scripture, and here is even more hope available to those willing to search it out. But let's not be fooled to think that God has promised things like: it will get better, you'll soon see the purpose behind this pain, there's never more than you can handle. Often it does get better; often we do see purpose; always there is sufficient grace. But lament must practice the modest faith of finding sufficient that which God provides, even if, in seasons of great sorrow, it may not seem like enough." …
I didn't know how faith felt when it grew incrementally.
After her initial conversion as a teenager, the author writes, "I was sent back into a world that no longer looked familiar to me. I had to relearn how to do everything.
We prefer the not wanting and not having to the losing.
The author says our prayers are misdirected when we ask God that He help us to love Him more. If we pray to him more, we will love Him more.
Grace has as much to say about endings as it does about beginnings.
Our small group is committed to getting the biblical text under our skin.
Believing in the sovereignty of God injects courage in the act of desire.
The Bible provocatively evokes desire.
