A HEAVY HEART Charlie Kirk has been martyred. Many of us have been listening to him for a long time… so this is shocking. Heartbreaking. Overwhelming. What it does is it pulls back the curtain of evil, revealing there are people in this world who really want to win, not listen or understand. There is… Read More Charlie Kirk: A Fearless Vessel for Christ
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
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
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
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
THE CHOICE WE MAKE THAT AFFECTS EVERYONE With Christmas fast approaching, what matters most is no different than what mattered most yesterday: our soul’s eternal destination based on the source of our faith. Each person has this choice to make, and each person does in fact make this choice, each and day every, whether or… Read More What Matters Most at Christmas Isn’t Under the Tree
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
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
