Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
God sent His Son into the world…
If you know another reason, please state it below.
I just read From this day forward by Andrée Seu Peterson. Wow!
Before giving you the link to her article, some excerpts to entice you with hope in the midst of failure, defeat, and discouragement:
He has given me a husband who lost 30 years in addiction and 12 years in prison and who assures me constantly it’s not too late because God will use every bit of it for our good, our children’s good, and His glory, and will restore all the years that the locusts have eaten.
Erick Erickson has an amazing piece at Red State.
Though I disagree with his closing line as applied to Christians — “Now go vote! The future of the nation is at stake!!!!” — and though I wish he wouldn’t engage in partisan commentary for an article such as this, I still find much which I can affirm.
So I’ve excerpted most of what’s particularly outstanding to me. Read it all
A cause for thankfulness from my reading this morning:
Are you demolished? Because your works are collapsing?
I heard Psalm 90 read in one of our Sunday services. This verse really connected with me:
“And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it” (Psalm 90:17).
As I shuffled through the cemetery’s expired grass this evening — troubled — a verse fragment suddenly dashed almost furtively through my chilly, swirling cranial fog.
Is any afflicted?
Now where did that come from? And what is the answer? Read it all
Naaman was mad. Very angry, in fact.
It’s no wonder. He had a huge, monstrous, humanly-insurmountable need.
He had come a long way for a solution. And a divine solution at that. He’d had plenty of time to develop a certain scenario, a specific sequence of events that should transpire.
In other words, he had his own idea on how things were going to happen Read it all