by Noah Bartley These beautiful sonnets are our gift to you this season. We hope you’ll read, and find renewed hope. Sonnet 1 Elpis: From the perspective of an intertestament Jew How long, O Lord? How long before you come?Omnipotent and kind one, speak to me!Perhaps the tongue that once spoke hope is dumb,Eternity now…

by Noah Bartley When fear of future or regret of past severs me from the present; When anxiety wrings my writhing heart of every ounce of peace; When “God’s will” becomes an idol, and I seek his Kingdom second; It is in there — in here — that the Spirit swings wide the door of…