A grab-bag of good questions and thoughts to help us grow in Christ:
- Given our very recent missionary visit, I thought that this article about genuinely getting to know those that we support and serve was timely: “Please ask me the non-spiritual questions”
- John Piper reflects on the star of Bethlehem: “O​​ver and over, the Bible baffles our curiosity about just how certain things happened. How did this ‘star’ get the magi from the east to Jerusalem? … The answer is: we do not know. There are numerous efforts to explain it in terms of conjunctions of planets or comets or supernovas or miraculous lights. We just don’t know. And I want to exhort you not to become preoccupied—not to become fixated—on theories that are only tentative in the end and have very little spiritual significance.” Piper goes on to make some great points about treasuring Christ more than trying to pick apart every possible question.
- Tim Challies gives a great reminder that our faith is not based on our own strength, knowledge, or wisdom, but on Christ: “All of this goes to prove that what matters is not the size of a person’s faith, but its object. What secures us in our trials is not the magnitude of our faith, but the power of the one in whom we have placed it. The smallest bit of faith in God is worth infinitely more than the greatest bit of faith in ourselves, or the strongest measure of faith in faith itself. Faith counts for nothing unless its object is Jesus Christ.”
