Key Truths - Page 20

Mystery: It looks like a translucent rock or a tiny translucent tortoise shell, on blue snow. But it's a snail.

God who reveals mysteries – 1

Post published:September 12, 2013
Post category:Knowing and Going with God
Post last modified:March 12, 2024

No human can figure out God's mysteries - yet our Lord can and does reveal mysteries. It is his way.

My mother lies in her adjustable nursing-home bed, her upper body and head elevated. I sit beside her bed, reading her a Psalm. She tolerates it, for the moment. Even when she had no more words, my mother rejected me, as her dad had rejected her.

Newborn

Post published:September 8, 2013
Post category:Trauma and Grief
Post last modified:March 9, 2024

Now, at last, my mom is getting to experience what a newborn should experience. But it didn't have to look like this. It didn't have to end where it should have begun, with the middle of the story lost in the chaos of trying again and again to rewrite the start.

An Australian shepherd dog delights in romping with, and listening to the voice of, its human.

God who speaks

Post published:September 5, 2013
Post category:Knowing and Going with God
Post last modified:March 11, 2024

From the first pages of Scriptures to the last, our Lord reveals himself as God who speaks.

Illustration: Man in casual collared shirt holds Bible in left hand, pointer in the right. Posted to his right are 10 small human silhouettes - the kind used for target practice. They're lined up in 2 rows. Smiling broadly with his mouth, but not at all with his eyes, the man points to the one silhouette colored red.

Dis-abling spiritual abuse

Post published:August 22, 2013
Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
Post last modified:March 10, 2024

Insights from Carolyn Custis James that can help us recognize and "dis-able" spiritual abuse.

Closeup of me snuggling my firstborn moments after her birth

Book writing and baby birthing

Post published:July 28, 2013
Post category:My Story
Post last modified:March 12, 2024

Bringing forth a viable book - or any other work that is living, breathing and life-giving - requires waiting and cooperating with God through the whole gestation period, however long he designates it to be.

Black-and-white photo taken July, 1863, after Battle of Gettysburg: Three Confederate prisoners (apparently in civilian clothes) wait next to a log barricade.

My Gettysburg legacy and this turning time

Post published:July 2, 2013
Post category:My Story Trauma and Grief
Post last modified:March 16, 2024

My great-great-grandfather, Lorenzo Whitaker, fought for the Confederacy in the Battle of Gettysburg. He was wounded and taken prisoner in fighting that left his unit decimated and most of his comrades dead.

Woman standing, turned, her hand up to block falling debris, in what appears to be an ancient block structure that is crumbling around her.

Submission and Sabbath

Post published:June 20, 2013
Post category:From: What About Women?
Post last modified:March 16, 2024

To help us grasp the stark contrast between God's view of submission and the way some religious people view it, let's consider the contrast between God's view of Sabbath and the way some religious people have viewed it.

Dishonor where honor is due

Post published:June 13, 2013
Post category:From: What About Women?
Post last modified:December 9, 2023

Few people mourned its passing. Few even knew that the TNIV Bible existed. Most Christians who did hear of it during its short but tempestuous life fled from it in fear.