Resilient: Restoring Your Weary Soul . . . John Eldredge titles his latest book Resilient: Restoring Your Weary Soul in These Turbulent Times (Thomas Nelson, 2022). John serves as president of Wild at Heart, a ministry based in Colorado Springs, CO. In many ways the author sees this book as the second part of a […]
“Tear down the walls between us, / Make way for love to heal us. / Show us the way of Jesus. / Where He is found / In common ground.”- Matt Maher, Common Ground “Even the stork in the heavens knows her times, and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming, […]
“The epicenter of our being is the deep longing to aspire for things that bring us life, to plan for those things, to take hold of them, to enjoy them, and start the cycle over as we aspire toward new things. This is the essential craving for life given to us by God. Let’s call […]
“Live in God’s love like a fish lives in water.”- Ron Luce Ron Luce begins Chapter 9 (“God’s Dysfunctional Children”) of Resilient by emphasizing that we need a right understanding of our relationship with God in order to be resilient is all situations. God made us so that our greatest need is love- the very […]
“The remedy for the ‘theology of complacency’ is simple- fall in love with Jesus.”- Ron Luce In Chapter 4 (The “Theology of Complacency”) of Resilient, Ron Luce asserts that complacency dulls our spiritual senses. As a result, complacency causes us to misunderstand the faith. Most noteworthy, Ron explains, Christ then becomes more enabler than master: […]