Assault vs Leadership
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYou don’t lead by hitting people over the head—that’s assault, not leadership.
Love and Respect
Reading Time: 2 minutes“I just want to be loved and valued. I want to be number one in his life. Unconditional love…that’s what I want.” We understand this. She needs his love. She needs love when she’s firing on all cylinders, and she needs it even more when she’s worn down—the kids are going full-barbarian, the water heater’s out, and the stir-fry dinner just got complicated by a lack of rice. “I need…
General Advice on Picking a Quality Mate
Reading Time: 2 minutesSome advice I was given on picking a mate.
The Sound of Silence
Reading Time: 2 minutesTruth dies in darkness; hope dies in silence.
An Invulnerable Christian Man
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of my friends told me how she was concerned that I wasn’t vulnerable. We listened to Brene Brown’s “The Power of Vulnerability” together so that I could understand her better.
Communicating with Christians
Reading Time: 2 minutesCommunication is the lifeblood of relationships. Do you know what a “phatic” communication is?
Little Children and Sin—A Knowledge of Good and Evil
Reading Time: 3 minutesAre little kids born sinful?
The Unstoppable Freight Train of Sin
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s always BNSF.
Odd, Lost Bible Text Found: “No one knows the day or the hour in 2020.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesResearchers in Israel have found missing Biblical texts in an ancient manuscript collection, as well as carved into walls. While working in old caves near Gallilee, archaeologists were shocked to discover key parts of passages that they’d not seen before
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.
The Danger of Idea Laundering: Mein Kampf and Social Justice
Reading Time: 7 minutesIn essence, idea laundering works through systemic infiltration of ideological malfeasance in the peer-review process. The grievance studies showed how this works, so I won’t go into too much detail (all the professors involved are liberal; Dr. Boghossian wrote “A Manual for Creating Atheists, so their worldview is humanist), but I’ll break it down a bit.
Christian Accidentally Watches News, Immediately Decides to Move to Nineveh
Reading Time: 2 minutesHe left his house to take a walk and clear his mind, but found that dogs were forming into packs in the streets, and all the trees were covered in murders of crows as far as his eyes could see.
Inexorable Depression, Death, God’s Plan, and Unfathomable Power: A Tale of Life
Reading Time: 9 minutesThe 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 minutesHave 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.
In Your Moment of Despair, Here’s Why I Know You’re Important
Reading Time: 4 minutesHave 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.
Feeling Frantic Desperation in a Perilous Era
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou’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.”
A Study of Angels
Reading Time: 11 minutesAngels are more interesting than popular culture would lead you to believe.
Abandoned and Without Hope
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEver 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…
The Objectionable Vanity of Mr. Necessary
Reading Time: 2 minutesPeople 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…
All Men Dream, But Not Equally
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDon’t call JG Wentworth, but you must act now.
Becoming the Greatest Good [Guest Post]
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis 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…
Bridges to Burn
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSometimes 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…
A Polish Friend’s Understanding of Judging
Reading Time: 2 minutesMy 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…
Losing a Loved One and Letting Go
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”
Featured photo by Sarah Lefor Art and Illustration.