Picture the prophet Elijah, just after calling fire down from heaven in a magnificent display of Yahweh’s supremacy, a great and terrifying show of power that prompts the people to worship the Lord as God and seize the prophets of Baal to slaughter. Picture a man of God whose faith seems to move mountains. Triumphant? Hopeful? Courageous? Possibly. But after hearing Jezebel’s threat to kill him, Elijah’s faith seems to vanish. 1 Kings 19:3 records, “Then he was afraid, and he arose and ran for his life.”
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Seek Your Servant
In all our sin, Jesus wants us to turn to Him. He is not reluctant, silently disapproving, or duty-bound to accept us in all our disappointing failures.
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Confessions of a Poet
Some writers seem to inhale and exhale poetry, but I am not one of them. I struggle to write vivid imagery and sometimes envy the poets who so easily compose winding verse about all the little, easily overlooked details that give a poem life: things like the precise smell of tangerine peels or the way a patch of sunlight lands on the carpet.
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Past the Windows: Reflections on Alias Grace
Half of the public thinks Grace is a cold-hearted, jealous killer. The other half thinks she is a witless, perhaps insane, innocent wrongly condemned. But Grace is neither heartless nor hapless. She is not the kind of person you would expect to find imprisoned.
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