Category: CHRISTY TENNANT

  • WRITING THE STORY OF YOUR LIFE

    Reflections on Acts of the Apostles Luke recorded years of the early church’s development in his letter to his friend Theophilus (recorded in the books of Luke and Acts). His detailed notes on eyewitness accounts and his own experience bring clarity to the founding of the church and Paul’s ministry. What if he had never…

  • WHEN THERE IS NO JUSTICE SEEK PEACE

    Reflections on Isaiah It was a normal, hectic New York City commute. I was walking through the Staten Island Ferry terminal to the subway, when I witnessed two young men collide. What was clearly an accident quickly became a showdown. The men began hurling racial epithets at one another and squared off for a fight…

  • INCHING TOWARDS GOD

    Reflections on the Psalms I have had seasons of great joy and delight in God, as well as seasons of unrelenting sorrow—times when God seemed silent and hidden in the midst of distressing circumstances and loss. We would love to think that following God is nothing but going from one degree of glory to the…

  • REMEMBERING TO REMEMBER THE GOODNESS OF GOD

    Reflections on Deuteronomy I must confess that sometimes I read about the forgetfulness of Bible characters and chide them in my mind. I think, “If God showed me a burning bush, I would never doubt him again.” But I would. And so would you. God knows our propensity to forget. That is why he is…