Faith
“I just came to tell you one thing”
A conversation with God on a wet afternoon, in verse, with the scripture He keeps answering in.
Grace
Faith
A missionary was preaching, and I got up and ran out of the service
He knew exactly what God was saying to him, and he did not want it. Then came months of running, which is where he found the book of Jonah useful.
Faith
The welcome mat says Live, Love and Laugh Often, and it is quite worn out
Not a call to try harder at loving people. An argument that the love is already in you, and that being convinced you are loved is the thing that releases it.
Wellbeing
Elijah asked God to take his life. God let him sleep, and then fed him twice
There is no lecture in that passage. No list of reasons he should keep going, no reminder of who was depending on him. An angel touched him and said the journey was too much for him, which it was.
Wellbeing
Accelerator, brake, clutch. Every driving instructor in Hyderabad teaches the same three things
The illustration works. The trouble is what we usually do with it, which is to tell people to press the brake harder and then act surprised when they cannot.
Faith
The same day they fed five thousand people, they were terrified in a boat
Twelve men watched bread multiply in their own hands at lunchtime. By three in the morning they were rowing into a headwind and frightened out of their wits. Mark tells you exactly why.
Faith
We say freedom on the fifteenth of August and mostly mean permission
Flags, the anthem, the telecast from the Red Fort. Then a year in which a girl was surrounded outside a bar in Guwahati and an infant died in Punjab over two hundred rupees.
Faith
We named this magazine after a parable where the master hands out the money before anyone has earned it
Somebody has told you that you are good for nothing. Matthew 25 does not open with what the servants produced. It opens with what they were handed.