The Unstoppable Freight Train of Sin
Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s always BNSF.
Obedience to Government
Reading Time: 4 minutes Grab your leash! We’ve some training to do.
Suicide, Violence, and Wise Fathers (+Podcast)
Reading Time: 2 minutes Fatherlessness is the single best predictor of violence in young men. Masculinity can become “toxic” in the absence of the wise Patriarch—but it’s just an aggressive form of sin.
Inexorable Depression, Death, God’s Plan, and Unfathomable Power: A Tale of Life
Reading Time: 9 minutes The answer to the pop quiz is “depression,” you lunatics! That was basically a free 100, so if you failed, you should probably be bearsprayed.
Family Without Blood
Reading Time: 2 minutes “The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.” —C.S. Lewis, Weight of Glory
Refusing to Abandon People: As Soon as Zion Travailed, She Brought Forth Her Sons
Reading Time: 4 minutes Have you ever been hurt or disgusted by someone? Have you wanted to leave them to drown in their own, willful mistakes?
Be steadfast in an age of impermanence.
Spiritual Math: The Sin Wave + Confession: The Most Difficult Act in the World
Reading Time: 6 minutes A sin wave has ups and downs, but it has no actual growth over time.
Is this your life?
Something You’ve Wanted to Do—And It Makes You More Honest
Reading Time: 2 minutes Would you like to improve your moral compass? There’s one thing that you might have avoided doing because you’ve felt that it was selfish
Christianity: For Best Outcome, Some Assembly Required
Reading Time: 5 minutes Worship, service, and the purpose of assembling with your battle buddies are often all misunderstood.
So is assembling with the saints even worth it?
In Your Moment of Despair, Here’s Why I Know You’re Important
Reading Time: 4 minutes Have you ever felt beaten down? Felt like the non-stop waves of defeat and distress have just crushed out hope? Maybe you’ve staggered on because the only other option is not even tenable, but you feel as if hope has been crushed out by unyielding despair.
Christianity in a Time of Conspiracies
Reading Time: 4 minutes People love exciting things. The chemical secretions in the brain can be enthralling—if you love roller coasters, you know what I’m talking about. In the same way, people can enjoy something terrifying as long as they’re personally safe: wildfires, pandemics, airplane crashes, you name it. The panic of a pandemic can give you a good little jolt—boy, this is bad!
God Made You to Excel in a Time of Turmoil
Reading Time: 2 minutes God made you to excel in a time of turmoil.
10 Simple Steps to Plan Your Marriage, Not Just Your Wedding
Reading Time: 10 minutes Lessons from Luke Wilson, who has the best marriage on this planet.
Feeling Frantic Desperation in a Perilous Era
Reading Time: 2 minutes You’ve wanted someone that you could hold tight, to feel less alone, to just breathe a sigh of relief with, or you’ve wanted someone to hold you, to say to you, “Don’t worry, WE’VE got this. It’s going to be alright.”
When Forgiveness Feels Like a Last Resort
Reading Time: 2 minutes Jesus stressed the importance of forgiveness when he remarked, “And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”
A Quote That Stunned Me
Reading Time: < 1 minute In my reading, one quote changed my perception of life, but I’m still struggling to actualize it.
Stagnancy of Spirit
Reading Time: 2 minutes Pick a battle buddy that will help you run this race into a ferocious finish.
A Study of Angels
Reading Time: 11 minutes Angels are more interesting than popular culture would lead you to believe.
The Importance of Study and Prayer Partners; a Life Update
Reading Time: 3 minutes Oh, Lucas. What an idiot! (Plus a good poem!)
Falling in Love With the Right Person
Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m kind of an A-or-F student, but people have given me some great advice. I figured that I’d share it.
The Cutting Edge of the Ability to Cope
Reading Time: < 1 minute Humans have an amazing ability to adapt to horrible situations. That same ability can also cut deeply in a bad way.
A Final Goodbye
Reading Time: < 1 minute I have a very hard time with goodbyes. I never know what to say or how to act, and I’d rather just kind of nod my head and walk away. In fact, you might say that I’m not really in touch with my emotions, period, but goodbyes make me sad. I was doing some reading, and I saw an awesome goodbye that the apostle Paul wrote: “Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim…
Abandoned and Without Hope
Reading Time: < 1 minute Ever been kicked when you’re down? My friend Slade went through an utterly hellish time, but I was so encouraged by how he took it—his words to me were so helpful that I had to share: “Our ever faithful God has His love over us. Especially when we are feeling ‘kicked.’ His love is still right here.” There is no way that I could have said it better, but I…
Today, Master of Art of Hanging on in the Face of Unyielding Defeat
Reading Time: 2 minutes Today, master the art of hanging on in spite of what seems like unyielding defeat. Have you wondered with tears why God hasn’t come through for you, why He doesn’t seem to care about your suffering? In the depths of my own despair, when I’ve wanted nothing more than to cry out, “Maranatha, Lord,” I have. But I have forgotten that I already have the answer. In the end, Heaven…
You Do Not Love out of Weakness, but out of Strength
Reading Time: 2 minutes There are things that I am not comfortable talking about. They’re not who I see myself as being, and they’re not things that I’m in touch with…yet these things which make me want to glance away, to pretend that they’re not there, they are what make me who I am. Your friend told you, “There is nice and there is naive. You’re on the naive side. Hurt so often. Don’t…