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
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
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
It can get easy to think—especially during more difficult times—that our fight is a one-man battle. But truthfully, this very banal and short-sighted mentality always results with unnecessary pain in our personal lives. BARE-BONED EXISTENCE: AN EARLY GRAVE What am I talking about, really? At its heart, I’m referring to the deleterious emotional atmosphere of… Read More A One-Man Battle Plan: What Will it Take to Truly Live?
Someone once said this blog is like a place of Christian musings. I can see how that could describe the nature of these articles. Every day is a new experience to refine what is known, and to introduce what is unknown to the docile spirit. LIKE CHRISTIANITY, LIKE MARRIAGE Christianity is a little like a… Read More Christian Musings #54
