Issue 1.4 | May 2019 In this Article: often we misread the darkness, and the signs that light is breaking in; that God is already here. A handful of years ago, at a time when the darkness seemed to cling suffocatingly close to me, my father remarked, “You know, sometimes when we are in a place of darkness, and there is no light at the end of the tunnel, we don’t realize that the tunnel has a bend...
Issue 1.3 | January 2019 In this Article: how suffering becomes the place in which God subverts evil, even before he ends it. Therefore, to keep me from being too elated, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, to keep me from being too elated. Three times I appealed to the Lord about this, that it would leave me, but he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you...
Issue 1.2 | February 2018 In this Article: how God uses the failures we experience, as individuals and as a Church, to return us to our high calling. Perhaps you are like me, and your heart lifts high at the sight of wild country: mountains, unending forests, or vast plains. It is as if the hand of God has not yet been interfered with by the hand of man. There is little such wilderness left today...
Issue 1.1 | January 2018 In this Article: the Church's quest for success, the humiliation to come, and the grace that covers all. There is no shortage, today, of ambitious Christianity. Whether it has to do with the evangelization of cultures or the eradication of evils, the transformation of sectors or the renewal of the church, we are all caught up in the desire to see great things happen for...
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