PERFECTLY IMPERFECT MESSES God exists. We can see His divine nature in all of creation (Romans 1:20). We see His fingerprints in the way creation has His signature of design on it, rather than “chance” or random chaos. In fact, because there is no such thing as an actual “perfect mess,” one is forced into… Read More Beauty for the Ages: Seeing God With Imperfect Eyes
PROCESS OF ELIMINATING SINS’ WAGES To love God is to honor Him in every area of our lives. This isn’t an easy thing to do… especially when we’re in sin. One reason repentance is so important to talk about as a Christ-follower is that it’s the reason we have such a hard time maintaining or… Read More Roadmap to Repentance in a Field of Apologies
ALL SORTS OF DEATH I think it’s safe to say we’re all affected by death; deaths of loved ones, the death of a season, of a pet, the death of a relationship—death comes for us all, but it’s what death means to us that changes how we experience its toll. A fair number of you… Read More Overflowing Faith from an Uncompromisable Seed
AIMLESS SEARCH If we don’t know what we’re searching for, we won’t find it. To search without a destination is pointless. To seek without the purpose of finding is fruitless and vacuous. Taking the first step of a journey towards nowhere ends before it begins. LACKING STRUCTURED, FUNDAMENTAL BELIEFS Many people find themselves in difficult… Read More Placing the Destination of Our Beliefs in the Promise of Jesus
CHOICES AND WISDOM Life is too short to hate oneself. It is even too short to hate life. There’s really only enough time to suffer in order to understand how to love oneself and others at a deeper level; that we could have revealed in our hearts the real beauty of the truth and nature… Read More The War Within Ourselves: At the Heart of How to Love
AFRAID TO KNOW WHAT WE KNOW If you’re like me, you have been influenced by people in ways that caused you to question yourself along the years, but the real questioning has always been “who are you?” from your own third perspective. You’ve noticed some others tend to act fearless, sometimes like they have all… Read More Do We Really Know Ourselves?
After so much objection to and rejection of Christianity throughout the ages, one might think there is something to discuss: What is the truth behind this Jesus, for so much hate, acrimony, sacrifice, humility, and transformation to follow? We don’t hear so much resistance about Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, or other religions. We don’t hear people… Read More Man-Made or Divinely-Inspired?
One of the most obvious and prominent theological contentions unbelievers have is why faith in Jesus is so important: why not just believe in being a good person, or just believe in a Higher Power? What does life have to do with Jesus? JESUS’S RELEVANT DIVINITY Following how the Bible teaches that the only way to… Read More Why Does it Have to be Jesus?
MISTAKING JESUS’S IDENTITY Jesus Christ means different things to different people, and what He means changes how we see and live our lives. For better or worse, Jesus’s name does not lack an impact on a person; the only difference is which impact is made. When Jesus is merely viewed as a moral, scrupulous wise… Read More The Impact of Christ’s Divinity in a Corrupt World
FALLACIES ABOUT CHRISTIANITY Christianity isn’t about what we must do to earn God’s love and pardon, but about living out of the joy of God’s love for us. What really cements in the cause for joy in Christianity is that what Christ did, He did while we were still drenched in our sin. If He… Read More The Face of Christianity: Jesus’s Undying Love
