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

Christian Spirituality / Culture / Folly / Francis Schaeffer / Grace / Imago Dei / Immorality / Pleasure / Pro Life / Sexuality

SEXUAL HEALING

We were made for better things. When God gets a hold of us, he begins to remake us and to restore us. Francis Schaeffer said that when we are redeemed and restored by God, we become the creature glorified. We become restored to the fullness of the Imago Dei.

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.