Stagnancy of Spirit
Reading Time: 2 minutes Pick a battle buddy that will help you run this race into a ferocious finish.
My sermons from the mount. ;)
Reading Time: 2 minutes Pick a battle buddy that will help you run this race into a ferocious finish.
Reading Time: 11 minutes Angels are more interesting than popular culture would lead you to believe.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Oh, Lucas. What an idiot! (Plus a good poem!)
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Reading Time: 2 minutes The constant tension wears you down. You’ve thought of ways to deal with it; to try and take your mind off of it. It’s still there, though, and it’s become like a constant, low-level adrenaline rush, frazzling your nerves and burning you out. And deep, deep down, you know what’s wrong. You need to make changes in your life. You’ve been running from your bad habits—or more accurately, running from…
Reading Time: 2 minutes I have never cheated on anyone, and I praise God for that, but I understand that I certainly could have. It’s a huge blessing that I’m not incredibly rich or incredibly good looking, as I imagine that all sorts of temptations are opened up behind those twin doors. I am so blessed that God has kept me from infidelity, and even more so that He has given me the ability to put…
Reading Time: 2 minutes People say that I’m quite vain; my sister says that it’s surprising given my looks. But that’s not true. I may hold myself in high esteem, but I know that I’d never be able to satisfy a woman whose instagram consists only of pictures of her. That above paragraph is a little bit of humor, and probably objectionable, but there’s some truth to it. I’ve never been the best looking…
Reading Time: < 1 minute Don’t call JG Wentworth, but you must act now.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Recent news has been pretty incredible: a man sacrificed his career, just a step away from being a flag officer, to protect his people. He was cheered by those who loved him even as he was removed from serving in his capacity as leader. But there’s a lesson: lead your team so that whatever was achieved while you were there will continue long after you have gone. My brother and…
Reading Time: 2 minutes If I’m a preacher riding a donkey, surely I can’t be accused of wording things poorly. Right?
Reading Time: 3 minutes If you look at what is fake for too long, you will begin to find faults in what is real.
Reading Time: < 1 minute If you have never read CS Lewis’ book, “The Four Loves,”go and buy it immediately. There is a selfish love in humanity which is no love at all—”If I can’t have you, no one will.” Or perhaps, “If I can’t be happy, I’ll make sure that you aren’t, either.” Contrast this “love” with appreciative love. “Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should…
Reading Time: 3 minutes This is a guest post from Temitayo Adebisi Adekunle, a Nigerian-born microbiologist. Look at the beginning of verse 1: “Therefore be imitators of God.” The goal of the Christian life is perfect imitation of God. The apostle John said that one day, “we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.” So, really, the whole of the Christian life is summed up right here: be imitators…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Inception was nifty movie in a way. The protagonists infiltrated people’s dreams and manipulated them, effectively making them a lie within a lie…within a lie. Each level of “lie” you went deeper, the greater the chance that you’d never find your way back to reality. The same is true of sin. When we try to hide or keep a sin, we tend to pile on additional lies, building a foundation…
Reading Time: < 1 minute Sometimes when Christians don’t have inner peace (*raises hand*), it’s because they’re living two lives: talking about Jesus during the day, and getting smashed at night. Assembling on Sunday, and stealing on Monday. The ultimate problem is that they’re clinging to the deeds of the flesh from their pre-Christian days, and unwilling to leave it all behind. Sometimes burning bridges behind us is entirely profitable. When Elijah found Elisha and…
Reading Time: 2 minutes My friend Justyna was talking to me about how sometimes Christians focus a ton on being right—and it is good to be accurate—but only so that they can point out where others are wrong. For a Christian, there are basically three types of judging: Number 3 is nominal. It’s observation coupled with loving action. We should remember that the kingdom of God is not a matter of being right and…
Reading Time: 2 minutes “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”
Featured photo by Sarah Lefor Art and Illustration.
Reading Time: < 1 minute There are so many regrets that I have, and so many wrongs that I wish that I could undo, but I can’t. And today I got a notification on Facebook: she’s having her birthday in 4 days! But she passed away just recently. I cared for her a lot, and she shaped my ideals of what a good woman is like. I cannot wait for eternity to truly set in. …
Reading Time: 3 minutes They don’t believe that there is an immaterial soul which exercises causal power on material reality. All that you are, therefore, is your body (including your brain). Since the brain, as a physical object, follows the laws of physics and chemistry, then your thoughts/decisions must also follow the laws of physics and chemistry.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Rancid was poor.
But he taught the best lesson.