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Embracing mystery demands that we refuse to stand over our history, examining it and judging it with aloof, sterile detachment. Mystery takes it in like a child’s first step onto the vast expanse of the white sands of the beach. Surrendering to the smells, the cool spray from the incoming tide, the warm sun, and the grainy coolness shifting under his feet, he simply enters into the ocean’s world. The young heart has no way to know what it is he is dealing with; he simply has to dive in and feel it for himself.

Restless Faith by Winn Collier

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Embracing mystery demands that we refuse to stand over our history, examining it and judging it with aloof, sterile detachment. Mystery takes it in like a child’s first step onto the vast expanse of the white sands of the beach. Surrendering to the smells, the cool spray from the incoming tide, the warm sun, and the grainy coolness shifting under his feet, he simply enters into the ocean’s world. The young heart has no way to know what it is he is dealing with; he simply has to dive in and feel it for himself.

Restless Faith by Winn Collier

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Our histories, the stories that have shaped us, are a way of diving in. They stir something deep within us. They remind us that we are not the first to believe, the first to doubt, or the first to wonder who we are or what God could possibly be up to.

Restless Faith by Winn Collier

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A lesser view of faith wants to protect God, to shield him against hard questions or unsavory press. God doesn’t share the concern. Confident in his own reality , he doesn’t fret over humanity’s God dilemma of whether to believe or not.

Restless Faith by Winn Collier

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The Strange Gift Our Doubts And Troubles

Our doubts and troubles offer a strange gift: they reveal how lost we are and how much we need God to move toward us. We see now the remarkable, improbable story. In Jesus, God did rip the heavens and come to us. Christ surrendered His own ripped and broken body so that He could overwhelm us with His love. In Jesus, God is very near. 

Winn Collier

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Review: A Burning in My Bones

Review: A Burning in My Bones

A Burning in My Bones, Winn Collier. New York: WaterBrook, 2021. Summary: The authorized biography of pastor-theologian and Bible translator Eugene Peterson. He pastored a congregation for nearly thirty years. He preached thousands of sermons, wrote dozens of books, translated the Bible into vernacular English, welcomed hundreds, if not thousands into his and Jan’s home, including Bono. He…

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Review: Love Big, Be Well

Review: Love Big, Be Well

Love Big, Be Well, Winn Collier. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing, 2017.

Summary: Letters written through the seasons of the church year by Jonas McAnn to the people of Granby Presbyterian Church on the varying facets of believing and living as a church, the warmth of friendship and the dark nights of doubt, each ending with the words “love big, be well.”

It is still early in the year, but I…

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