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
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
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
FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION UNDERNEATH If believing in God is so important to living a meaningful life, can those who don’t consider themselves spiritual find meaning in altruism? Can someone immerse themselves in a lifestyle of investing time, energy, and finances into charity and generosity for the purpose and pursuit of growing altruistically? The fundamental question underneath… Read More Faithful and Selfless: A Meaningful Life of Giving
CHALLENGING PASSAGES Sometimes, it’s the most challenging passages of Scripture that are most pertinent for our spiritual growth. Sometimes, we need to read the hard stuff to understand why Psalm 119:130 says that the Word gives understanding even to the child. Some translations read that it gives understanding to the “inexperienced.” If we don’t open… Read More Persecuted, Hated, & Oppressed for His Name’s Sake… Blessed Are You
PROVOCATIVE, ENLIGHTENING, OR DEMONIC Imagery is powerful. Whether through still art or motion pictures, they’re designed to tell the brain and heart something. It’s data, and it’s influential—whether for good or bad. It can be provocative or evocative; enlightening or galvanizing. It can also be just plain tempting or demonic. MAINTAINING OUR INNOCENCE AND MENTAL… Read More Cinematic Introspection: Beyond the Scope of the Eye
ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT PERFECT FAITH Christianity isn’t about perfection. Lots of us hold onto the fallacy that faith means we’re supposed to reflect perfection in some way by means of our belief in God. There’s a reason that’s fallacious—spoiler alert: we never achieve perfection here in this life. The goal is to strive to draw nearer… Read More The Fallacy of Perfection: Growing In Faith, Not Self-Deprecation
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
