How long will you hide your face from me? -- Psalm 13:1 How does one Search for (and embrace) Honest Faith when your world is shaken? you've watched the world of others being shaken? you serve, minister to, walk with those whose world has been shaken? colleagues, family, friends bring the challenging question of where was your God? At Jubilee 2011, I had the opportunity hear Kent Annan (author of After Shock: Searching for Honest Faith When Your World Is Shaken and codirector of Haiti Partners) and Enel … [Read more...] about ‘After Shock’ as a resource for wrestling with the crisis in Japan
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Lent begins today: Ash Wednesday
What cannot be admitted -- what must exist only as an undefeated but daily resisted enemy -- is the idea of something that is 'our own', some area in which we are to be 'out of school', on which God has no claim. ... I do not think any efforts of my own will can end once and for all this craving for limited liabilities, this fatal reservation. Only God can. I have good faith and hope He will. Of course, I don't mean that I can therefore, as they say, 'sit back'. What God does for us, He does in us. The process … [Read more...] about Lent begins today: Ash Wednesday