When Your Plans and God's Steps Don't Match - Proverbs 16:9

When Your Plans and God's Steps Don't Match - Proverbs 16:9

There is a particular kind of relief in this verse. It doesn't remove the responsibility to plan. But it does remove the pressure of believing the outcome depends entirely on the quality of the plan. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit monoingles.substack.com/subscribe [https://monoingles.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

When the Incarnation Feels Like a Doctrine Rather Than a Reality - John 1:14

John doesn't begin his Gospel with a birth. He begins before creation. And then thirteen verses in, after establishing who the Word eternally is, he arrives at the most compressed statement of the incarnation in all of Scripture. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit monoingles.substack.com/subscribe [https://monoingles.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

When You Wonder if Anyone Is Paying Attention - Luke 12:7

Jesus is preparing his disciples to be sent into a world that won't welcome them. He talks about fear, about sparrows, about what the Father sees. And then he says something about the hairs on their heads that changes the whole scale of the conversation. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit monoingles.substack.com/subscribe [https://monoingles.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

When the Suffering Feels Anything But Light - 2 Corinthians 4:17

Paul has just listed what his ministry has cost him. Beaten. Imprisoned. Shipwrecked. Left for dead. And then he describes all of it in two words. Momentary. Light. He is not minimising it. He is measuring it against the right thing. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit monoingles.substack.com/subscribe [https://monoingles.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

When You Long for Things to Be More Right Than They Are - Matthew 5:6

The Beatitudes move against almost every instinct. The poor in spirit, the mourning, the meek. And then this one. It describes a hunger most people have but don't know what to do with. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit monoingles.substack.com/subscribe [https://monoingles.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]