A Climb Free post - a deeper look at truths that can change our view of our God, ourselves, and the way in which we can live effectively in this world. (This is a continuation of the exploration of our God’s “hesed” love, His covenant love for us.) The covenant love our God is always …
Continue reading The Love of God – His Steadfast Love (Part 3 in a series)
Some people, when the conversation turns to intimacy and communion with their God, light up and become energized. It is clear they enjoy their God, and long for the consciousness of His presence. John Piper said this; “But to enjoy him we must know him. Seeing is savoring. If he remains a blurry, vague fog, …
“Knowing the Bible is one thing. Knowing the author is another.” This simple statement is rich with profound truth. How many people come to learn many truths about the Bible, and never become intimate with its author? Far too many, I fear. We have built an entire “Christian education” system around learning facts and principles …
A Climb Free post - a deeper look at truths that can change our view of our God, ourselves, and the way in which we can live effectively in this world. (This is a continuation of the exploration of our God’s covenant love for us.) The terms used for the love of our God more …
Continue reading Climb Free: The Love of God – A Covenant Love
“There is no peace like the peace of those whose minds are possessed with full assurance that they have known God, and God has known them, and that this relationship guarantees God’s favor to them in life, through death and on forever.” - JI Packer What does it mean to know your God as it …
Continue reading Familiarity, Not Facts; Intimacy, Not Information.
Years ago, a speaker from Ireland was addressing a group of Young Life missionaries of which I was a part. The point of his message was the need for us to develop and maintain an intimate, conversational relationship with our God. Quintessentially Irish, with wild red hair, a fisherman’s beard, a distinct Irish brogue, flaming …
A Climb Free post - a deeper look at truths that can change our view of our God, ourselves, and the way in which we can live effectively in this world. Years ago, I was working in a church in Idaho, developing student ministry programming and working directly with students from four communities. One of …
Photo of Lake Helen, location of this story. (For the first two parts of this story about a night on a solo backpack trip in the Bighorn Range, check out the previous two posts on the Adventure Blog.) Elks. Coyotes. Mystery grunting whiners making laps around my tent. Noisy grass-eaters. And now, rain. What next? …
Photo of author's tent at Lake Helen. (For the first part of this story about a night on a solo backpack trip in the Bighorn Range, check out the previous post on the Adventure Blog.) Shortly after falling into that first deep level of sleep, a new noise, very close to my tent, began to …
Apparently, I miscalculated the amount of liquids I needed to drink while hiking six miles at 10,000 feet in elevation. I had forgotten just how much liquid I would expirate while gasping and wheezing uphill at that elevation, I suspect. This miscalculation would come back to haunt me in the middle of night. It would …
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