GOD’S TRUTH IS NOT OURS One of the truths about Christianity that calls to my soul is that it’s not about “feeling good,” it’s about knowing the Truth, and choosing to let the Truth set us free by embracing the way God’s love for us doesn’t leave us the same when we choose the Truth… Read More Not a Feel-Good Religion, But a Call To Arms
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
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
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
HORRORS OF A WORLD WITH SIN There is so much suffering in this world. So much suffering. It’s one of the most common reasons unbelievers have put aside considering the existence of a so-called all-loving God. There is so much trauma in life that one wonders how a loving God, with all His wisdom and… Read More When We Suffer: Discipline of the Spirit
THE CLAIM AND THE TRUTH Claiming to be a Christian isn’t the same as being a Christian. Let’s not get this wrong. Claiming to be Christian is really easy, but being a Christ-follower looks very specific from the outside looking in. This isn’t new news. The same way a hypocrite looks and sounds a specific… Read More The Line Between Belief & Repentance: Putting on Christ
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO DELIVER A friend of mine passed away about a month ago, she was younger than I am. Hadn’t spoken to her in years. But I was thinking eventually I would see her and we would catch up about all the time we’d missed. This wasn’t something I was planning to write… Read More Tomorrow Is Today: Let Faith Do the Talking
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
THE PATH LESS TRAVELLED Urgency. When we hear that word, we picture intensity and an attitudinal hastiness in spirit. What would cause this urgency in someone, and what is the worth behind it? When we believe in something so strongly, it isn’t uncommon for that belief to galvanize us to do something in response. What… Read More Losing Religious Fear: Leaving a Bigger Impact
What does it really mean to be present? For years I’ve found myself lost in rumination, thinking of anything from the menial to heavy to the abstract: evaluating, analyzing, contemplating, dreaming, but not being present. A part of me acknowledges that a lot of that was just me having a creative, active imagination with a… Read More Honing in on Purpose
