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 | Dec 14, 2016 | Hard Truths
Early in my life, my grandmother gave me the bookmark that appears in this photo. The poem[1] talks about meeting God in the morning so as to have him through the day, reflecting the author’s delight in the presence and sufficiency of his God. With such a great...
by Karen | Dec 7, 2016 | Staying the Course
“The way we treat the Bible is the way we treat Jesus, for He is the living Word and the theme of the written Word.”[1] Christ’s followers need no further motivation to become devoted to time in our Bibles. Jesus said that we need the Word to live.[2] Of course,...
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...
