It's a bit ironic that I'm sharing a post by Tim Challies today about sleep and the theology behind it. It's ironic because I've basically been awake since the wee hours of the morning—not by choice. I am not an early bird. But for reasons that vary, sleep escapes me many nights. Many times it's because I don't deal with things in a timely manner. I wake, and my mind inevitably races as I think about those very things. Other times, it's because of varying health-related issu

For reasons I can't remember, I got thinking the other day about something that happened to me when I was much younger. I didn't learn how to swim until I was already a teenager. I'm not sure why; I just never learned. One day I was in a pool, and unbeknownst to me, there was a deep end. As I walked around inside the pool, I stepped on the decline that went to the deep end, and I couldn't fight my way back up. Soon I was under the water and losing oxygen. It was not a good sc

Life is challenging. It can be easy to be discouraged as we look at what's going on in the world today, not to mention what can happen in our personal lives. But Christians aren't in this thing alone. God Himself has told us He is a God of comfort. For today's share, I want to share this article from Ligonier discussing this very idea: that God is a God of all comfort. He breaks it down into three points: The Immanent God, The Incarnate God, and The God of all comfort. I know