What is “character growth”? When it occurs in a person, what is happening? More importantly, is character growth something we choose to make happen or is it something that happens to us? Actually, there is a passive and an active path to character formation.
Read MoreWe live in an age where everything good is interpreted in terms of happiness and success. To be blessed means to be happy and successful. In fact, if a follower of Jesus does not appear happy or successful, we wonder what is wrong with them.
Read MoreThese three Good Friday responses are crucial if we want to experience the Easter Sunday resurrection of life and hope. In fact, we may find that if we follow this path, we can experience life and hope while we're still in the valley, because even in the valley of suffering, God prepares a table for us to experience his goodness. If you flee that valley, you will miss that table.
Read MoreBeing cancer-free is worth the suffering of chemotherapy. The delight of newborn life is worth the suffering of childbirth. You knowing and receiving God's love, and being in relationship with him is worth the Cross. However, perhaps there are end goals that are not worth the sacrifice or suffering you are making.
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