While You Wait

While You Wait

Waiting can be a challenge, even for those who are in Christ, and even for those who have experienced a good outcome from previous times of waiting. We don’t always carry the last victory into the newest challenge. As humans, we have accomplished forgetters. God may...
While You Wait

The High Yield of Contentment

Job the wealthy landowner and Paul the bi-vocational itinerant preacher came to the same conclusion about accumulating riches. Job: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return” (Job 1:21). Paul: “We brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take...
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Slow and Small

We need a distraction. Almost every story about a surprise attack contains this line. Whether it’s a rescue operation or a hostile invasion, a well-timed distraction raises the odds of success. A rock thrown in the opposite direction. A fire set on the other end of...
While You Wait

Better Here Than There, Better This Than That

Seventy years is a long time to be where you don’t want to be. But that was the situation the citizens of Judah found themselves in. Taken from their homeland, exiled to Babylon, for seventy years—which meant that some would never see home again. It was their fault,...
While You Wait

Infinitely Finite

But there never seems to be enough time To do the things you want to do once you find them. So wrote singer and songwriter Jim Croce in his hit single of the early 1970s, “Time in a Bottle.” He wrote the song soon after his wife, Ingrid, told him she was pregnant—news...