var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.benreed.net/index.php/2009/12/07/im-not-a-reader/’,size:’large’} Why can a person read 2,444 pages of the Twilight Saga but barely find 10 minutes to read their Bible?
I ask difficult questions.  Not difficult in that you couldn’t follow along because they’re intellectually difficult, but difficult in the sense that they’re not surface-level, “easy” questions.
I was talking with [...]

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.benreed.net/index.php/2009/06/18/rejoice/’,size:’large’} When life falls apart, we tend to lose hope.  Whether that’s getting a flat tire (I just had one!), getting a headache, hearing tragic news, or losing your job, our response is often to recoil and lose hope.
When life falls apart, do you run to God or from Him?  [...]

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This year, I’ve taken up gardening.  I wrote a little bit about that here.  Before you write me off as a girly man, hear me out.
I built four raised plant beds to plant some mini-gardens in my back yard.  I don’t have room for a full-on garden, and raised [...]

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.benreed.net/index.php/2009/05/13/is-music-the-answer-to-depression/’,size:’large’} Check out these lyrics from “Let the Music Get Down in Your Soul” by Mark Broussard:
When your life gets too complicated
Gotta let the music
Get Down in your soul
Forget all your frustrations
And let the music music
Get down in your soul
Get on up, My brother,
And let the music, get down in [...]

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.benreed.net/index.php/2009/02/18/is-your-system-working/’,size:’large’} I’ve been in my current ministry position now for a little over a year. Our church is structured around a three-fold strategy of creating followers of Christ: Gather, Commit, and Serve:
As we GATHER to celebrate Jesus and encounter biblical principles, COMMIT to one another in community groups, and [...]

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.benreed.net/index.php/2009/01/22/worry-trust-and-gods-control/’,size:’large’} I want to thank you for all of the prayers you prayed for my son, who had surgery a couple of weeks ago.  It went very well, and he’s recovering nicely.  In fact, he does not even react as if the surgery site is painful now.  We’re so thankful [...]

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.benreed.net/index.php/2008/10/22/interesting-conversation-part-4/’,size:’large’} This is the last post that I’ll give based directly off of the emails that I have talked about in the last 3 posts.  You can read about this conversation here, here, and here.  It’s been helpful for me to think through these psychology issues and offer what I [...]

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.benreed.net/index.php/2008/10/16/interesting-conversation-part-3/’,size:’large’} Here is the third post from a series of conversations that I had with a psychologist.  You can read the other conversations here, where it all started, then here, the response that he had to my post, then my response to him here.  Just so you know, we have [...]

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.benreed.net/index.php/2008/10/15/interesting-conversation-part-2/’,size:’large’} This is the second part of a conversation that I had with a licensed psychologist.  I’ll keep his name anonymous, but suffice it to say that we share basic biblical/theological foundations, but approach counseling with a different methodology.  We are able to maintain a solid friendship, though we disagree [...]

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.benreed.net/index.php/2008/10/13/interesting-conversation/’,size:’large’} I’ve been having what is to me a fascinating conversation with someone who sees things a bit differently than I do.  We are both counselors in the broad meaning of the term, though our jobs look vastly different on a daily basis.  We see eye-to-eye on many, many things [...]