Tag: sovereignty
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HOPE AFTER CHURCH TRAUMA
Hope After Church Trauma An autobiographical reflection on the reality of church trauma, the joyful yet difficult path of finding belonging again, and God’s sustaining good purposes in and through it all.
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Job 1:21-22
BibleART – Take comfort, Our God is sovereign in the valley of sorrow and suffering! “The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.” Through all this Job did not sin nor did he blame God.” Job 1:21f, NASB 1995
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John 10:27-29
BibleART “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch…
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Romans 8:32
BibleART “He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?” Romans 8:32, NASB 1995
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God Moves in a Mysterious Way
BibleART “God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. – William Cowper, 1774
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Romans 8:38-39
BibleART “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:38-39, NASB 1995
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Job 37:5-7
BibleART “God thunders with His voice wondrously, Doing great things which we cannot comprehend. “For to the snow He says, ‘Fall on the earth,’ And to the downpour and the rain, ‘Be strong.’ “He seals the hand of every man, That all men may know His work.” Job 37:5-7, NASB 1995
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Genesis 50:20
BibleART As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive. Genesis 50:20, NASB 1995
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Luke 8:24-25
BibleART “And He said to them, “Where is your faith?” They were fearful and amazed, saying to one another, “Who then is this, that He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey Him?” Luke 8:24-25, NASB 1995
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NEVER QUITE HOME
What do we make of difficulties and disagreements in this life? Are they merely a reminder of the futility of our world, or in God’s hands, is there a greater, more glorious purpose?
The Two Books 