When You Feel Far Away From God – Inspiration from The High Calling

Psalm 31:1-24 In panic I cried out, “I am cut off from the LORD!” But you heard my cry for mercy and answered my call for help. Psalm 31:22 Have you ever felt far away from God? Perhaps your life was going along wonderfully, right according to plan. Then, without warning, everything started to fall [...]

God and Goggles – Inspiration from The High Calling

Psalm 17:1-15 Guard me as you would guard your own eyes. Hide me in the shadow of your wings. Psalm 17:8 I own a pair of protective goggles and use them faithfully. I wear them when I’m cutting branches with my chainsaw or attacking weeds with my weed whacker. My goggles serve a crucial purpose: [...]

Gold-Medalist David Boudia: God is Perfect and Sovereign

David Boudia, Olympic diver. Photo from http://www.flickr.com/photos/anhonorablegerman/7378148968/

By now, most of us would know David Boudia because of his gold-medal performance in the men’s platform diving in the Olympics. His victory was stunning, not only because he bested the favored Chinese diver, but also because he barely made it into the finals, just squeaking into the finals in eighteenth place. Boudia’s story [...]

Work and God . . . Oops! The Times Gets It Very Wrong

Jacopo Bassano, "Garden of Eden." 1570-73

A recent column in the New York Times gets many things right, and at least one thing very wrong. In “The ‘Busy’ Trap,” cartoonist and writer Tim Kreider laments our tendency to lament our constant busyness. He begins: If you live in America in the 21st century you’ve probably had to listen to a lot [...]