This is the cautionary tale of a girl who went to church camp (which was great and challenging and I was already having to work though some emotion…) and returned home, had a conversation with a someone which seemed to let the air out of the balloon, the fizz from the champagne (I don’t think […]
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Posts by Stephanie van der Merwe
Christian Living / Derek Brown June 8, 2015 When I came to Christ during college in the winter of 1998, the months following my conversion were a time of spiritual bliss. The glory of God was visible everywhere, Jesus Christ was precious, God’s people were a delight, and personal holiness was a new passion. In […]
The Cross, as a symbol of faith, topic for preaching, or theme for theological discussion, usually gets placed on hiatus after Easter. Even during the Lenten season, we happily allow the exuberance of the Resurrection to marginalize the agony present in the Cross. It seems like such a downer to talk about self-denial when “resurrection” […]