Here is a Tim Keller sermon that will feed the soul of people in our day. This sermon will help you understand some of the reasons you think like you do. And it will show how Christ can set you…
Why I Am Thankful for Nurses
Stories like the one below illustrate the love people demonstrate even to strangers. So many nurses excel in showing love to those they barely know. As a pastor, I spend more time in hospitals than most people with the obvious…
Our “inconsolable secret”
Cornelius Plantinga in his highly recommended, Engaging God’s World (page 7): Our “inconsolable secret,” says C.S. Lewis, is that we are full of yearnings, sometimes shy and sometimes passionate, that point us beyond the things of earth to the ultimate…
Thom Rainer reflects on the brevity of life
Thom Rainer (President and CEO of Lifeway Christian Resources) reflects on the race of life: When my son, Art Rainer, began work on the book we co-authored, Simple Life, he spent a good bit of time in a cemetery. That’s…
Understanding Pastoral Envy and Other Longings/Yearnings/Sensucht
If you find yourself longing for a better church, or marriage, or somehow feel that your career is not what it should be, then read this post from Daryl Dash (click here). Be careful that you don’t dismiss the post…
The New Earth Won’t Be Boring
One of my favorites, Rudyard Kipling reminds us that our time on the New Earth won’t be spent sitting around doing nothing. . . On the contrary, it will only be than that we can
Why So Many are Depressed at Christmas
I think the reason many are depressed over the holidays is because they do not know how to interpret the yearnings of their soul.
I don’t suppose that there is anyone who has not experienced yearnings or longings of the soul – Augustine said that he experienced them when he read Plato – – he felt as though he was looking at a peaceful valley from a wooded ridge – – a nostalgic feeling — that there was a beautiful place that he couldn’t quite access.