by Karen | Mar 29, 2017 | Exposing Deception
Have you seen the great new app that alerts you when someone’s lying to you? Just kidding, of course. We might think we’d like to have such an app, but we surely wouldn’t like having it used to expose our own untruthfulness. Deception’s got a bad reputation. From a...
by Karen | Nov 23, 2016 | Exposing Deception
The last two posts considered hurdles that keep us from trusting Jesus—our desire to be in control and our gravitation toward comfortable untruths. We lose focus on the source of all truth and get carried away by tidal waves of worry and distraction—Satan’s ploys to...
by Karen | Nov 16, 2016 | Exposing Deception
God isn’t safe, but he’s good. I love the story in C. S. Lewis’s book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe where Lucy, who has ventured with her siblings into the world of Narnia, asks the Beaver family (who are actual beavers) whether Aslan (the Lion who...
by Karen | Nov 9, 2016 | Exposing Deception
I’ve wondered why we Christians aren’t better at trusting Jesus. We say that we trust him, but our lives often tell a different story. We like to be in charge. We imagine that we have full knowledge of self and purpose.[1] We set out each day to find satisfaction...
by Karen | Nov 2, 2016 | Exposing Deception
(To see Parts 1 and 2 of this 3-part post, please go to What does it mean to live for Christ? Part 1 of 3 ~ Finding the Way and What does it mean to live for Christ? Part 2 of 3 ~ Getting in Sync with God.) In the first two posts of this series on living for Christ,...
