doubt
Seeing is believing
John 1:1-18 (1/3/2016)
Seeing is believing. But what if you can’t see?
fear
Fire and water
Isaiah 43:1-7 (1/10/2016)
It’s not that the Lord will not be with us at the place of our fears, but that most of us don’t know what fear is. God’s love, God’s tireless and boundless love, is the antidote to fear, but God’s love is about more, so much more, than merely easing our anxieties …
depression
Depression and the paradox
Isaiah 62:1-5 (1/17/2016)
Depression is not a sin, but a shadow …
despair
Nothing
Nehemiah 8:1-12 (1/24/2016)
This is not despair, because despair cries no tears. Their tears are the mark of their desire for God. Their tears are the door through which God will come to them …
anger
Familiarity breeds contempt
Luke 4:20-30 (1/31/2016)
When God’s light shines on the sources of our anger, it is these greater dislocations, the hurts that others suffer, not our own, that make us burn, and anger begins to look very much like love.
boredom
Are you bored?
Luke 9:28-36 (2/7/2016)
We have reason to be doubtful, reason to be angry, reason to depressed or afraid. There may even be reason to be in despair. But there is no reason to be bored!