A friend of ours, the wife of a pastor at a church in Colorado, had once told me about something her daughter, Hannah, said when she was three years old. After the morning service was over one Sunday, Hannah tugged on her mom's skirt and asked. "Mommy, why do some people in church have lights over their heads and some don't?" At the time, I remember thinking two things: First, I would've knelt down and asked Hannah, "Did I have a light over my head? Please say yes!" I also wondered what Hannah had seen, and whether she had seen it because, like my son, she had a childlike faith.
Is heaven a hope or as real as the earth and sky? - Todd Burpo
Is heaven a hope or as real as the earth and sky?
- Todd Burpo
It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard. - Todd Burpo
It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.
...when I was angry at God because I couldn't go to my son, hold him, and comfort him, God's son was holding my son in his lap. - Todd Burpo
...when I was angry at God because I couldn't go to my son, hold him, and comfort him, God's son was holding my son in his lap.
What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda. - Todd Burpo
What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.
How do you scare some sense into a child who doesn’t fear death? - Todd Burpo
How do you scare some sense into a child who doesn’t fear death?
A friend of ours, the wife of a pastor at a church in Colorado, had once told me about something her daughter, Hannah, said when she was three years … - Todd Burpo
A friend of ours, the wife of a pastor at a church in Colorado, had once told me about something her daughter, Hannah, said when she was three years …
Jesus clearly viewed children as precious - and that if he loved kids enough to say that adults should be more like them, we should spend more time l… - Todd Burpo
Jesus clearly viewed children as precious - and that if he loved kids enough to say that adults should be more like them, we should spend more time l…
I think sometimes we think faith is about having all the answers. It isn't. But it's the thing that keeps you steady and in peace in the midst of sto… - Todd Burpo
I think sometimes we think faith is about having all the answers. It isn't. But it's the thing that keeps you steady and in peace in the midst of sto…
Like an engineer understands a car he or she designed, no one understands your limitations and possibilities better than the God who created you. - Todd Burpo
Like an engineer understands a car he or she designed, no one understands your limitations and possibilities better than the God who created you.
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