Colossians 1:16 “For through him God created everything in heaven and on earth, the seen and the unseen things, including spiritual powers, lords, rulers, and authorities. God created the whole universe through him and for him.” MASSIVE UNDERTAKING There seems to be an increasingly growing intention of reframing the very grounds of belief in spirituality… Read More Spirituality Without God: There’s No Such Thing
HUMBLING STARTERS I’ve been married once, and divorced once. What a way to begin a Christian article, right? What did I learn? So much. I could probably write a book on what I learned. It’s not just what I learned from and about the relationship I was in, but how the relationship issues I experienced… Read More Marital Wisdom: Seek the Lord First
UNNECESSARY CONTORTIONS People treat happiness like an addiction sometimes. It’s as though the most important aspect of our everyday lives is to quickly return to happiness, lest it be lost in the wake of any number of irritable circumstances. We could even say people could come across as anxious or afraid of losing happiness. This… Read More The Endless Pursuit of Happiness & Finding Real Joy
LONG-SUFFERING Atheists say they want proof of God’s existence, but they can’t disprove God exists. They don’t believe the Bible is reliable, but they can’t explain why the Bible is the only manuscript that’s been copied many more thousands of times than any other written document in human history. Unbelievers want to know why God… Read More What’s the Rush: The Only Decision You Need to Make Right Now
INSPIRATION FOR THIS ARTICLE Ever since I was a teenager, I’ve been a fan of the metal band, WITHIN TEMPTATION. When I first found them, I was a naive atheist, unwilling to see the world any differently than I was seeing it, particularly through the lens that a good God wouldn’t allow suffering. The band’s… Read More Don’t Pray For Me: A Metal Song In Need Of Contemplation
SEEKING WORTHINESS NONSENSE Why is it so hard to believe that forgiveness from God comes at the beginning of our relationship to Him through Jesus, and that that is the starting point of our Christian walk? The beginning of our journey is not the “pursuit of achieving worthiness to get into Heaven”, because that would… Read More Forgiveness, Jesus as Lord, & the Power of Prayer
WE ALL LOSE FIRST I used to hate my story. You know, the one that explains how you got from where you were “back then” to “where I am today.” I hated mine because I hated my traumas, my mistakes. I hated my decisions and the way people who were hurt by my lack of… Read More Winning the Battle of Inner Conflict: Loving the Story that Defines Us
EVOLUTIONARY DISMISSAL For the unspiritual, life isn’t two-hold, it’s one-fold. This life is the only one. For believers in spirituality, or specifically in Jesus, life and death have depth to them based on the understanding that we are more than our corporeal bodies existing as matter within other matter (the atmosphere). There is weight and… Read More Pointless Argument for a Meaningless Life
Are niceness and kindness the same? They’re not. Niceness is being agreeable, or pleasant. Kindness is benevolence; being friendly, generous, or considerate. What makes the difference between them important? There’s nothing wrong about niceness as a quality unless it’s a facade. Niceness has a cunning way of being the smiley face in front of a… Read More Bold & Kind: Feeding Christians Protein-Style Manna
Day-to-day trivialities sometimes get the best of us, we can start there. We tend to get lost in the little things instead of enamored by them. Rather than being carried up in awe by the quiet of nature, we become bent out of place by horns honking, vulgar language spewed by impatient people unconscious to… Read More Trivialities: The Path of “Right” Little Things and How to Appreciate the Rest
