“Most godly solutions require waiting.”- Dr. Wayne Stiles In Chapter 3 (“Satisfaction on Hold”) of Waiting on God, Dr. Wayne Stiles notes that the pangs we feel in life come from God’s original design. Along with that need, God also created what we require to satisfy that hunger. Furthermore, whatever the source of our hunger, […]
“Like Joseph, we find ourselves taken on compulsory journeys by God.”- Dr. Wayne Stiles “Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, had bought Him from the Ishmaelites who had had brought him down there. The Lord was with Joseph . . […]
“How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever?”- Psalm 13:1 Dr. Wayne Stiles continues Chapter 2 of Waiting on God by noting that the psalmist’s question sounds almost heretical- except it came from King David. Furthermore, Dr. Stiles stresses, “this is how David felt, but it isn’t what he believed.” We often feel this […]
” . . . the hardest part of dealing with any stabbing disappointment in life isn’t the pain itself as much as it is the spiritual confusion.”- Wayne Stiles As Dr. Wayne Stiles continues Chapter 2 of Waiting on God, he observes that, between Joseph’s brothers and Jacob, there was a lot of refusing going […]
“We will not wait on God if we don’t love him supremely.”- Wayne Stiles Dr. Wayne Stiles begins Chapter 2 (“When Dreams Turn into Nightmares”) of Waiting on God by noting Joseph’s brothers learned from their parents that “when life gets tough, you take matters into your own hands.” In contrast, when Jacob dispatched Joseph […]
“God selected events to give us hope while we wait.”- Wayne Stiles “Whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.”- Romans 15:4 As Dr. Wayne Stiles continues Chapter 1 of Waiting on God, he notes that we try […]
“With too many [biblical] details, we’d get lost in the weeds. We would see so much truth that we’d understand little of it. That’s why the Spirit of God selected only certain events to record in the Bible.”- Dr. Wayne Stiles “There are also many other things . . . which if they were written […]
“In the end, if we really knew the big picture, we too would want what God wants for us- and in the exact way and timing he wants it to occur.”- Dr. Wayne Stiles As Wayne Stiles concludes his Introduction to Waiting on God, he notes that our pain often blinds us to the big […]
“We do a lot of waiting. But the most difficult kind of waiting? Waiting on God.”- Wayne Stiles In the Introduction to Waiting on God: What to do when God does nothing, author and pastor Wayne Stiles describes how it feels to wait on God. Usually, Dr. Stiles states, waiting on God involves hanging on […]
“Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.”- James 1:19-20 (NIV) In the final chapter (13) of Anger, Dr. Gary Chapman cautions against two common approaches used to respond to an angry person. In addition, neither approach involves […]
In today’s blog, Dr. Gary Chapman reminds us that “listening paves the pathway to understanding.” Consequently, he illustrates this by presenting steps four through seven of his seven-step process for responding to angry people. 4. Seek to understand the angry person’s plight. Since you have listened, listened, and listened, now put yourself in the angry person’s […]
Dr. Gary Chapman suggests seven steps for responding to angry people in Chapter 13 (“Confronting an Angry Person”) of Anger. Dr. Chapman discusses the first three steps in today’s blog; 1. Listen. You validate an angry person by listening to his story. Once you’ve heard the story, ask him to repeat it. As a result, […]