Entries Tagged 'Joy'

At the Playoffs (February 7, 2022)

By Timothy R Butler | Posted at 9:28 PM

As we live as Christians, we face struggles and opposition. Shouldn’t life be easier? Should we find a way to make it easier?

Not Enough Green Squares (January 31, 2022)

By Timothy R Butler | Posted at 8:59 PM

Sometimes the deck appears to stacked and it’s hard to see how life will do anything but go from bad to worse. How do we have joy then?

Sorry, Sold Out (January 24, 2022)

By Timothy R Butler | Posted at 8:21 PM

As we think about joy in dark places, Paul turns to those who are actually preaching the Gospel with the aim of discrediting him. What do we do when people and circumstances seem to want to hurt us?

Return to Sender (December 27, 2021)

By Timothy R Butler | Posted at 9:15 PM

So Christmas is over, right? Not so fast! Traditionally the Church celebrated the joy of Jesus’s birth in the days after Christmas and after a hard couple of years, there are some very good reasons from God’s Word to pick that tradition up.

Rumors of My Demise...

By Timothy R Butler | Posted at 5:37 AM

…have been greatly exaggerated. Again. I'm still here, I've just been very busy on a web development project. I'm hoping to find time to blog on some theological topics soon. Particularly, “mystery,” the term “practical theology” and other odds and ends. One of these days, I need to return to my attempt to define what the word literature means too.