James’s Blog: The Waiting Psalms.

James’s Blog: The Waiting Psalms.

I’ve been reading a book called ‘Deeper Places: The Spirituality of the Psalms’ by Matthew Jacoby, and I was struck by something that I read today. He suggests that the most common experience conveyed by the Psalms is the experience of waiting for God to show up.

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James’s Blog: A Letter to My Struggling Sister or Brother.

James’s Blog: A Letter to My Struggling Sister or Brother.

Dear Sister/Brother,

There is something that I want to say to you.

When I decided to follow Jesus as an awkward teenager (really, is there any other kind of teenager?) I had only one redeeming quality. It wasn’t that I was quite clever, or reasonably likeable, or that I had a glistening ball of potential creativity resting in me. Read more

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