Tag: freedom

Choosing Joy

When people talk about joy, it’s easy to think of it as a passive experience. There will certainly be moments when joy overwhelms you. Those moments are sweet gifts, but they’re just moments. The Christian call to joy isn’t a call to chase more and more of those unique moments. It isn’t even a call to put yourself in a position where you might get swept up in that current. It is a call to create the current, to actively cultivate joy in your own heart and mind. 

Does God Sleep Through Oppression?

The beauty of the gospel recognizes that if we are united to Christ, we have already been delivered from all oppression—both the oppression we inflict and the oppression we suffer.