Posts Tagged With: trusting God

Books — Root from Dry Ground: The Story of the Sudan Interior Mission

A look at SIM’s history from 1966.

Root from Dry Ground: The Story of the Sudan Interior Mission

Root from Dry Ground: The Story of the Sudan Interior Mission was published in 1966 by the Sudan Interior Mission. Although no authors or editors were named, the first five chapters were adapted from an earlier history, Seven Sevens of Years and a Jubilee, written by Dr. Rowland V. Bingham and published posthumously in 1943. The final two chapters of Root from Dry Ground summarize the years from 1942 to 1966, and a presentation that Dr. Bingham gave on “How we became interdenominational” is included as an appendix.

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Liverwurst and open minds

Somehow, I like liverwurst.

I’m not sure how it happened.  I only know that I was very young and that somehow Mom got me to try it.   Continue reading

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The Unpleasant Responsibility of Praying for Our Enemies

I keep avoiding writing this. It’s been sitting on my computer screen for days, fittingly unwelcome but reminding me of its unpleasant existence.

I have to pray for Boko Haram.

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Learning to trust God’s timing

God is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all good.  He made the universe, from the biggest galaxies down to the tiniest subatomic particles.  He knows everything, and as scary as that can feel when we think about the mistakes we’ve made and the ways we’ve wronged Him and others, that means that we never have to fear He’ll find out what we’re really like.  He already knows, and yet He loves us anyway.  Inexplicably, we’re welcomed as children and not condemned as criminals.  He told us again and again through the Bible that He’ll provide what we need when we need it.

So why do we so often struggle to trust that He will?

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