Category: The Godward Life

What Richard Sherman Accidentally Exposed

25 January, 2014 Ben Palpant 3 Comments 2 categories

Seconds after Richard Sherman’s spectacular defensive play in the end zone sent the Seahawks to the Super Bowl with a win over the formidable 49ers, reporter Erin Andrews thrust a microphone in his face while

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Make 2014 The Best Year Yet: Practice Doxology

18 January, 2014 Ben Palpant 0 Comments 2 categories

We live in The Therapeutic Age, an era marked by a fixation on social, emotional, and psychic well-adjustment, often in that order. Self-improvement is the special-of-the-day. We worship a therapeutic God, reformed into an image

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Growing Down: Reclaiming a Childlike Imagination

14 December, 2013 Ben Palpant 0 Comments 2 categories

Brian Aldiss suggests that children remind us of our decay. There was once a time when we dreamed long dreams and hoped large hopes, imagining remarkable possibilities for our life stories. We used to dream

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My Life As A Bobolink

19 October, 2013 Ben Palpant 0 Comments 1 category

God has used various means to show me my need for him, but it was health collapse that most forcefully pushed me to confront my destitute state. It was a long year at the bottom

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The Purpose Of Prayer Is Me [God Help Me part 3]

12 October, 2013 Ben Palpant 0 Comments 1 category

The only thing I really remember about Popeye, besides his cans of spinach and bulging muscles, was his motto: “I yam what I yam.” The Apostle Paul said it a little more clearly: “By the

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Dis-ease And Why It’s Good For You

5 October, 2013 Ben Palpant 0 Comments 1 category

A person who desperately needs God’s help doesn’t mess around with formalities. His prayers are simple and aggressive, variations on the same three word prayer, “God help me!” It is a richly theological prayer and

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God. Help. Me. Part 1

28 September, 2013 Ben Palpant 0 Comments 1 category

Being destitute simplifies things. A destitute person has simple needs and his prayers are simple too. That simplicity is provoked by a certain urgency. Someone who recognizes just how needy he is has no time

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