WILLFUL NEGLIGENCE It’s far too easy to live a non-challenging life. Let me be clear about what I mean by this. As humans created in the image of God, we have a responsibility to make use of every gift and skill set we’ve been blessed with to nourish, enhance, and uplift the lives of others… Read More The Challenged Life: Where Joy Coexists With Consequences
REBORN BY A PRIVATE CHOICE By itself, being raised going to church doesn’t make any person a Christian. A Christian isn’t defined by church attendance. A Christ-follower is any person whose heart has been reborn by choosing Jesus as Lord, through faith; a private choice they make in their heart, which becomes the choice they… Read More Candid & Necessary: What Does It Really Mean to Be Raised in the Church?
A NEW REALITY Have you ever been so sure of something about your life or yourself that you didn’t even have to think about it, where the “knowing” was just a part of your reality? Or, have you ever connected with something so deeply, such as with knowledge or relationship itself, that it felt like… Read More This Is How We Die to Ourselves
ONE DIRECTION OR THE OTHER At its roots, Christianity isn’t about feelings or thoughts, it’s all about the heart. In the same way Christianity is all about the heart at its roots, disbelief is all about the self. When we say no to God, we’re saying yes to ourselves, and vice versa; when we deny… Read More Beneath All the Minutia: The Only Right Way to Choose God
CHRISTIAN AT MIND BUT NOT AT HEART There are those of us who consider ourselves Christians simply because we agree there is a God, and we believe in our mind that Jesus rose from the dead. And while the mind may like the idea of Christianity and find it interesting, the heart doesn’t always follow… Read More Repentance, Hope & Fire: The Marks of a Changed Heart
Someone I’ve been listening to a lot lately, and whose ministry I truly believe has been blessed by God, is Nate Sala of Wise Disciple on YouTube. Nate used to be a debate coach, and the pastor of a church in Las Vegas, Arizona. The skills he brings to the table in his videos are… Read More The Root Issue Is the Brokenness of the Human Heart
DISTRUST IN THE AUTHOR Not many people read anymore. Of those who do, not all read the Bible. And of those who read the Bible, many question its legitimacy and reliability and so they distrust its author is actually God. How can we identify the fundamental core of truth if we don’t dig deep into… Read More Merely Functioning: Living in a World that Prefers the Matrix
EVERYTHING IS NOT OKAY We can’t keep lying to ourselves saying everything’s okay. Not everything’s okay. And that’s the truth, isn’t it? It’s okay to not be okay. What’s not okay about not being okay is staying there. We can’t stay in the ‘not okay’ place inside ourselves forever. It’s a season. Seasons come and… Read More Short & Intentional: May Today Be the Day We Truly Lived
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS One of the reasons I feel compelled to stay at my full-time job at a retail store for the short-term is due to how many encounters I have with people holding a variety of spiritually ambiguous beliefs, who seem intrigued by what I have to say about the Christian faith. MISLEADING, UNBIBLICAL BELIEFS… Read More Risking Our Lives to Be Wrong About Eternity
This is for someone out there. I hope it’s you. UNTAMED, INCORRUPTIBLE WORD OF GOD There’s a lot of spiritual backfiring going on in the world today. As a fellow brother Christ-follower, I’m here to remind you: don’t give up the faith. The devil loves to bark loud to scare off the sheep, but the… Read More Encouragement in These Hostile Times
Vessel For Christ 