Another element of increasing our trust in God in the wilderness is the fact that there is so much outside of our control – the weather, the trail, wild animals, random hikers, and so on and so forth. There are…
The Wilderness Teaches Trust
The wilderness gives us an opportunity to learn to trust God, to trust others, and to trust ourselves. Last week, I wrote about my own crisis of trust on Mt. Agassiz. Sometimes we find the healing of former distrustful situations…
Learning to Trust
One day on our last trip to the western US, we decided to hike Mt. Agassiz. It’s a 12,400ft. peak in in the Uinta Mountains of Utah. The peak is best known for being climbed from Naturalist Basin, the premier…
Nature Worshipers are Looking for God
Last week, I wrote of how we can meet with the same God in church or in the wilderness. The revelation may be a bit different, but it’s still the same Creator of the Universe. For centuries, the Christians have…
Wilderness or Church?
I read a quote on Facebook the other day that went something like this: “I go walking in nature because there I feel what I never felt in church.” At first glance, I was tempted to be offended. How can…
New Territory Means New Muscles
We are very intricately made objects. Our bodies work beyond the understanding of even the most brilliant doctors of this world. They can explain things, but even after centuries of studies, they still don’t understand every function of the human…
He Fills the Hungry with Good Things
I’ve been posting quite a bit about how people view the desert as a poor place to be – a place of dryness and unfulfillment; of heat and drought and sorrow. It’s true that the Bible talks about the desert…
Spiritual Killers in the Wilderness
To continue from last week… just because we are in a “desert” or on a “mountaintop” in our spiritual journey doesn’t mean that one or the other is easier or that one is less of an adventure. Everything we do…
Mountains vs. The Desert
Last week, I posted about remembering again how most people think of the desert and the wilderness as places to be avoided, metaphorically speaking. Our songs and sermons focus on getting out of the dry places, or at least…
Defender
Last week I had the opportunity to attend a rather large conference. The worship leaders were world-renowned, and I was excited to worship with them. It was a great experience; and I had a lot of fun as well as…