Comments on: Shrinking God.

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 02:50:10 +0000

Amen!

By: Jessie Costin

Jessie Costin — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 09:39:36 +0000

I love this site! Thanks so much for all your posts. They're such a reality check, but at the same time really encouraging.

By: thoughtriver

thoughtriver — Thu, 27 May 2010 16:28:47 +0000

Amen, this is some good preaching! I could not agree more.

By: a.barefoot

a.barefoot — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:59:10 +0000

"It happens for a lot of reasons, but one is because doubt is easier than faith. Doubt springs forth with natural momentum, faith takes effort. Even when good things happen to me, I immediately start waiting for the other shoe to drop. I treat good things like teenagers treat quiet scenes in horror movies. I walk into the good and say, "Hello, is anyone there? It's good in here, too good." And then I wait for something horrible to come back into the picture. Because I doubt God can sustain the good in my life. He is not big enough. I do it constantly with this site. When friends ask me about it or the book I always say, "It's going well but we'll see." The phrase "we'll see" is my way of saying, "good things don't last. God is not big enough to do the things I would like to do. He is small.""

This was really good for me to read today. This is the epitome of me.
"Welp, everything is awesome now but...we'll see in a few months"

Thank you for this reminder of Gods love...and that he's on our team and isn't waiting to throw a lightning rod at me.

By: Kara

Kara — Sun, 31 May 2009 07:01:45 +0000

Hi, I’m not sure if you’ll read this, but I came upon your blog from a post that Todd Agnew wrote a while back, and I started from the beginning of the list and have just finished this post. Thank you for writing this post. I think it’s just what I’ve needed to hear lately.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 01 May 2009 23:05:00 +0000

passed – something you did VERB
past – yesterday…or adverb “We went past it.”

Never, ever ever “We went Passed it.” Bad form. And driving me crazy.

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:06:00 +0000

Probably too late for you to read this, but I think all of the disciples were hiding because they feared the religious leaders who had just killed Jesus. I mean, they were known for being his followers, and they didn’t know if they were next on the hit list.

By: Left

Left — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:46:00 +0000

Great post Jon. Sure I'm late to post on this, but I'm just reading some of your old stuff.

I've struggled with this a lot, doubt and fear, making God small. I started thinking about Doubting Thomas to see what I could learn from him.

One thing I realized is that all the disciples were hiding. If Thomas was the only doubter, why wasn't he the only one hiding? I could be way wrong here, it's common with me, but maybe Thomas was the only one honest enough to express what some or most of the others were thinking.

In that way I've started to think of Doubting Thomas as Honest Thomas. And I try to be more honest to myself and God about my doubts and fears.

Honest Thomas seems a little pedestrian though for a biblical giant. Maybe he should be Thomas the Honest. That sounds more knightly, like he could slay a dragon with his gleaming sword of honest.

By: Becky

Becky — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:08:00 +0000

That personified what my heart has been trying to tell me for probably more than a year now. Thank you.

By: Jerrod

Jerrod — Tue, 13 May 2008 05:00:00 +0000

Awesome post. This is one of the best illustrations I’ve ever seen on this subject. You should write a book.