Gospel Mindfulness

What does it mean for God to dwell with his people? For one thing, it means that God has extended himself in relationship to us, redeeming and reorienting our lives towards the original Edenic order.

Photo by just_a_cheeseburger

Truth has fallen on hard times in the modern world. Echo chambers abound, and all of us, if we're honest, love to talk more than listen. To represent God well, however, means to represent him and to represent others well. It is to care deeply for truth.

Painting by Gilbert Stuart

People can be difficult, frustrating, mean, or even cruel. They can seem impossible to love. Yet God has created all of us in his image and those who love him love his image in others.

Painting by Vincent Van Gogh

What does it mean to take the Lord's name in vain? Is it avoiding coarse language? Perhaps, but it is so much more. For better or for worse, Christians are God's mouths and hands to one another and to a watching world.

Graphic by Eviatar Bach

Whether we realize it or not, one of the most important things about ourselves, the thing that makes us who we are, is what we give ourselves to in worship. All of us worship something, but God created us to worship Him.

Photo by Petr Kratochvil

God can be terrifying. He is holy after all. But he is also a God of compassion. He is a God who does not leave us in our sin but comes down to us, that we might be brought to him.

Painting by Benjamin West

Holy, awesome, terrifying. The image of God presented in the Bible is not always the image of God we want or imagine. Nevertheless, Scripture has made it plain that in his presence no evil, no matter how small, can or will stand.

Painting by Benjamin West

God desires for us to trust and rest in him alone. It is what we were created for. It is also very difficult. Paradoxically, sometimes it takes a season of trial to begin to learn God's goodness, faithfulness, kindness, and rest.

Painting by Jean-François Millet

Complaining. All of us do it, and when we complain, the temptation is always to forget God.

(Painting by J.E. Gray, 1846)

Many of us would love a fresh start—an undo button for life. Our identities are often wrapped up in the things which cause us the deepest shame. It seems inescapable, but Jesus the Lamb of God offers us hope.

Painting by Jan van Eyck.