99 Balloons

Evidence of God’s grace: these parents can be joyful even in the midst of this kind of suffering.

99 Balloons from Igniter Media on Vimeo.

[HT: JT]

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Martin Luther on True Contemplation on the Cross

For Holy Week, click here to read Luther on how to truly contemplate on the cross.

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Tears of Hope

A few months back, this video of Zac Smith was making its rounds around the internet. A few weeks after the video was made, he died of cancer. His wife just came out with another video in which she discusses the grief and hope she experienced in the months after her husband’s death.

A Story | Tears of Hope from Adam Kring on Vimeo.

[HT: Tim Challies]

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The Need for Personal Conviction of the Truth

Quote from God in the Dark: The Assurance of Faith Beyond a Shadow of Doubt.

Available here at Amazon.com.

… a conviction is nothing if it is not our own. Other things play their part in helping us to understand, but nothing can take its place. Unless each of us wrestles with the truth for ourselves, we will end up with opinions rather than convictions. Pascal warned that “hearsay is so far from being a criterion of belief that you should not belief anything until you have put yourself into the same state as if you had never heard it.” No conviction is truly our own unless we are prepared to hold it even if the rest of the world is against it. Athanasius contra mundum (against the world) is a stance we would not wish for ourselves but a stance that is implied in faith (p. 103).

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Patience: You Are Not In Control

A few weeks ago, I came across this blogpost on theResurgence by David Dorr. The main idea of the blogpost is the following:

“Patience is the settled reality that we are not in control.“

Patience is the settled reality that we are not in control… The Spirit has been graciously calling this insight to mind frequently since then, especially in the darkest of moments. Patience is the settled reality that we are not in control.

By God’s grace, I am beginning to see – not clearly enough! - how this Scriptural insight, namely, that we are not in control, is good news. It’s good news precisely because I am, by God’s grace, beginning to see how not in control I am. And it is then that verses like Philippians 1:6 and Psalm 40:11 make sense – but not only make sense, but also begins to stir my affections for Christ.

Patience is the settled reality that we are not in control.

Click here to read the rest of the article.

[HT: theResurgence]

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