Strength to Strength

Those whose strength is in you,… go from strength to strength, till each appears before God in Zion. – Psalm 84:5, 7 Too many Christians are more resigned than need be to a stumbling approach to spiritual growth. We presume that progress towards maturity happens by a “two steps forward, one step back” process. But the Biblical model doesn’t quite support this view. Instead Scripture speaks of “unveiled faces” that are being transformed “from glory to glory.” It imagines us as trees planted close