Author Archives: E H Williams

..Back in the saddle again Will I ever not be afraid of good works? Remember – •  if He is for us who can be against us? • Greater is He who is in us • He is strong to save.  He rejoices over us with singing.  We can come straight to the throne roomContinue reading “wisdom for getting…”

am I alone in seeing these words, “the way to happiness in Jesus” as to be the most arduous words in scripture? “it’s the same old story…no guts no glory”. I have observed there are times when this flows. But the vast majority of my time is spent cowering from the first step. After all,Continue reading “obedience and trust”

Who remembers being grounded? Serving time in the room for something you feel destined to repeat. Seeing that correspondence carry out to adulthood can spell disaster. As adults, time away means time lost, in our vocations, relationships. after all, we don’t know when our last day will come, or when God will come back, assumingContinue reading “Crime and time..”

If you don’t know the story of Jim Elliot, he was a romantic Christ follower who developed a dream to reach out to the unreached with the Gospel. In her book Through Gates of Splendour, his wife Elizabeth recorded his martyrdom at the hands of the Auca Indians he finally visited. Their story is alsoContinue reading “Modern Missionary Martyr”

if your boredom and spare time continue, check out my more “well rounded” blog at obviousgrasp.wordpress.com. The title is A Risky Mess

Suffering: for good or bad..Which is worse? (Not referring to which is better, but to which is for lack of a better word, more challenging.) Suffering consequences from wrong actions… Or suffering the torture and entrapment of doing right? Better to suffer for good than bad I know, but there is a certain sense, thisContinue reading “Consequences or Entrapment”

I have recently had the “privilege” of being let go from my church for 1 year at least.  I plan on moving on but anyway… I was pretty miffed once I got the phone call from the police officer who officiates our Sunday services.  Not just miffed, but suspicious. He told me it was theContinue reading “persecuted for righteousness?”

Trust in God for King David was depending on God to rescue him from his adversaries. Trust in God for Job was trying to reckon with and endure through what in the world God had done to him (for him?). I’m sure many of us have experienced at least the felt blessings that come fromContinue reading “What does Trust in God look like? part ii”

Trust in God doesn’t depend on what He does for us so much as what He doesn’t do for us, or at least doesn’t appear to do for us. “Though He slay me yet will I serve Him” – Job Saying He is faithful in more often than not a statement of belief rather thanContinue reading “What does Trust in God look like?”

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click theContinue reading “Introduce Yourself (Example Post)”