Sitting Under the Kudzu Vine

So the LORD God appointed a plant and it grew up over Jonah to be a shade over his head.

Category: Grace

Baptists / Christian Life / Christian Spirituality / Grace / Steven Curtis Chapman / Theology

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

We are ruins who walk among ruins. Our spiritual world is a smoldering heap of broken lives, broken dreams that stand like destroyed buildings in an apocalyptic landscape. We are like piles of moldering ashes. We are ruined by our own natures and our slavery to our darkness and rejection of God. We are slaves to our self-importance, to sex, to greed and materialism, to selfishness, to the glittering trinkets that the dark powers throw at us to grab our attention.

Christian Life / Christian Spirituality / Church / Grace / Salvation

WE ARE NOT ALONE IN THE DARK

Have you ever ridden I-59 in the dark between Gadsden Alabama and the Georgia line? As you go up and down those mountains, you can see lights in the distance. Most of them are homes hugging...