By David Faust Do you ever try to negotiate with God? The Lord invites us to talk with him about all kinds of things. We can thank him for our blessings, confess our shortcomings, ask him for help, and—as numerous Old Testament passages indicate—even debate with him. But in case you haven’t noticed, God […]
By David Faust “Jesus went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went along with him. As he approached the town gate, a dead person was being carried out—the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her. When the […]
By David Faust Do you ever experience déjà vu—the eerie feeling that you have seen or experienced something before? Here’s a provocative idea: Have you ever experienced vuja de? That’s the ability to look at something familiar as though you have never seen it before. In his book Seize the Vuja De (Missio Nexus, […]
By David Faust I once had a frightening dream in which I was driving a car through a crowded street. In my dream it was late at night, but the car’s lights wouldn’t work. I was barreling along at high speed through the darkness, trying to maintain control, but I couldn’t see where I […]
By David Faust We know heroism when we see it. We try to capture it with words like courage, bravery, pluck, gallantry, and daring. But no dictionary can fully describe the admiration we feel for the firefighter who races into a burning building to rescue a child or the nurse who devotes her life […]
