Someone said to me recently after church, “Protestants don’t really have a good theology of suffering.” And I think this person is right. In Protestant circles, we tend to focus more on things like: “Victory in Jesus!” “Just believe and it will be yours!” “All things work together for the good of those who love…
On Tuesday, October 4, I landed in Porto, Portugal, to begin walking the Camino de Santiago. For the next eight days, I would walk anywhere from twelve to twenty miles—a total of about a hundred miles—taking one step after another on my way to Santiago de Compostela. The Camino de Santiago is an ancient pilgrimage…
Have you ever felt frustrated when circumstances changed? Maybe it was vacation plans. Maybe work plans. Maybe family circumstance changed. Whatever it was, you planned for things to be this way, but now they’re that way. When things don’t go as planned, that might put us in a state of what we might call disequilibrium. …
Sometimes you gotta step out of your comfort zone. I don’t know about you, but I much prefer to stay in my comfort zone. It’s way easier inside my comfort zone. I know how things work inside my comfort zone. I know what to expect inside my comfort zone. I mean, I just feel comfortable…
