God’s Grasshoppers
“To ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers” (Numbers 13:33, HCSB). How’s that for thriving self-esteem? Lay that one on your therapist and you’re liable to get another year of appointments tacked on for bad behavior.
Victory in Christ
I Blew It — Now What?
How do you feel when you sin? Frustrated? Guilty? Ashamed? And what do you do about it? I found a nice little protocol for this situation—turns out, God outlined a plan for the Israelites after they asked for a king (1 Samuel 12:20-25). Now, just to be clear, this wasn’t what you might call …
Settling
Have you ever started off strong on a project—or maybe it was a relationship or a friendship—only to have things go really sour? It seemed so promising at the beginning, but in the end you were left with nothing but a big mess and the question, “How on earth did this happen?” That’s exactly what …
Safely Anchored
There’s a line in Chapter 11 (“Night Terrors”) of The Race that had me puzzled, even frustrated, for quite a while. Chris is climbing a cliff and having trouble understanding how Josh can simultaneously climb and anchor Chris’s safety ropes. When he discovers that Josh is on the other end of yet another line, …
The Victory is in Your Mind
I promised you a story about the real events that inspired Chris’s mind-song rescue in Chapter 32 of The Race. This story did not happen to me, but to my father-in-law. I’ve heard him tell the story a couple of times, but I’ll apologize just in case I get an occasional detail wrong. José Refugio …