Category: The Godward Life

Embrace the Risk: Brief Thoughts on Faith (Part 3)

18 November, 2017 Ben Palpant 0 Comments 1 category

We are dogged by our changeableness because we live in a broken world. We swing between hilarity and deep sadness, anxiety and absolute peace, faithfulness and unfaithfulness, sincerity and flippancy. But God is unchanging and

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Fully Alive: Brief Thoughts on Faith (Part 2)

11 November, 2017 Ben Palpant 3 Comments 1 category

Irenaeus once said, “The glory of God is a human being fully alive.” And Christ said, “I came so that you might have life, and have it abundantly” (John 10:10). The abundant life is the

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Searching for God: Brief Thoughts on Faith (Part 1)

4 November, 2017 Ben Palpant 0 Comments 1 category

Simone Weil suggested that the Christian experience has been contaminated by her enemies such that we conflate the search for God with muscular willpower. The Bible promises that if you search for God with all

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A Birth and a Becoming: Redeeming the Past (Part 4)

28 October, 2017 Ben Palpant 0 Comments 1 category

Christ is the one who redeems your past in the present, for his name’s sake and for your future’s sake. In him, the past, present, and future cohere. In him, and him alone, all this

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If You Are

21 October, 2017 Ben Palpant 0 Comments 2 categories

If you are the horizon,compel me. If you are the boat, carry me out to sea. If you are the waves,buoy my soul. If you are the wind,fill my sails. If you are the North Star,lead

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