What do you do when it seems as though the Lord is silent? When you’ve prayed and prayed, pouring your heart out to God, and there is no answer? Do you question whether He is really there, and truly hears? I know I have before. Our mid-week Bible study has been studying the life of…
Author: Hannah
The Next Right Thing
I’m never going to recommend one use Disney as a trusted source for parenting wisdom. There’s really not a whole lot of parenting on display there, and what little is shown is inept, ineffective, and out of touch. Surely we can find better parenting resources than Disney. I’m also not going to tout Disney as…
Fear
This might be an unusual opinion, but I’m beginning to think that fear is a gift from God. Maybe like trials or suffering it’s more something that He uses for His own purposes in our sanctification, but sometimes it feels more like a gift. Of course, that might depend on the object of our fear,…
Thoughts Provoked By Gaudy Night
I originally started this several months ago. The themes have lingered still, and it’s been an encouragement to me, actually, to revisit, review, and refine my more immediate response. I recently binged a bit on Dorothy Sayers’ Gaudy Night, at least as much as I’m able to this time of year, and although I’ve finished…
Reflections
Wise is the person who builds in time and mental space for reflection and review of the year past, and planning (and maybe even a little dreaming) for the year ahead. Culturally, we have this thing about New Year’s and resolutions, and if that works for you and makes sense for you, great. It’s a…
Perseverance
Perseverance. According to Merriam-Webster, perseverance is the continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition. According to the New City Catechism (question 39), it should also characterize our prayer life, and that might be the single most convicting thing about prayer I’ve ever heard. Even more so than the exhortation in…
Recent Reads, Volume X
A brief summary of what I’m currently reading or have recently finished, why I read it, and whether I’d recommend it. Although really, it’d have to be truly terrible for me to bother writing about a book I wouldn’t recommend…… A Higher Call (Adam Makos) – The WWII account of a US bomber pilot, and…
Small Groups, Take 2
I’ve written before about why I believe small group Bible studies are important and some of the benefits to be reaped by participating therein. This year, though, as another semester of study begins, it seems especially important to revisit those things, and offer a bit of encouragement as we begin again. You can read my…
Deliverance
Anyone else in the middle of less than pleasant circumstances? Yeah, yeah, I know – global pandemic, major election cycle, hurricanes, economic uncertainty, protests against racial injustice, plus whatever trials you may be facing in your personal life – all perfectly normal, and not worth mentioning as unpleasant, right? (That’s tongue-in-cheek, to be clear.) Anyone…
A Few Thoughts on Ephesians 4
I recently read the book of Ephesians as part of my daily Bible reading, and chapter 4 really made me stop and think. It’s not as though it’s the first time I’ve read this book; part of my schooling as a kid was to memorize it. It’s no fault of the system, only the fault…