God’s Restraint / Spiritual Meditations

Why doesn’t God intervene to rectify various earthly dilemmas? Philip Yancey presents a thought-provoking image of God’s perspective as a partial answer to that question.

Your Unique Ability to Talk to God / Spiritual Meditations

God doesn’t need our bodies to access our minds. As Tennyson wrote in a poem, “closer is He then breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.”

How to Act Yourself into Faith / Spiritual Meditations

Jesus presents the journey of faith as a personal pilgrimage begun in uncertainty and fragile trust. As we act according to God’s will we form common ground with Him and our assurance grows.

Tragedy-Can Anything Good Come Out of It? / Spiritual Meditations

For many people, it takes the jolt of tragedy, illness, or death to create an existential crisis of faith. At such a moment, we want clarity while God wants our trust. How do we respond?