Thinking about God’s faithfulness as it was described to Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the nation of Israel can easily feel distant from our lives, because their situation was so clearly different from ours in so many ways. Even as I’ve been studying and writing it has felt distant. The nation of Israel is two things, primarily, [...]
In the Tuesday morning Bible study that I mentioned in my last post, we discussed the various meanings the simple phrase “living with” can have. In that study, the context was living with a wife, and how differently men can view that. Some “live with” their wife like they would live with a [...]
I wrote a while back about my desire to focus my writing on the topic of taming my intellect and what that should look like practically. As I meditated on, read about, and prayed over this topic, I began to see that I needed to begin by reflecting on wisdom itself and on [...]
I have spent much of my twenty years in confusion, wondering what to do with the intellect that I have been given. I have wavered back and forth between relishing my mind and hating it, praising God for it and begging that He would explain why I had to live with it. Knowledge [...]
