I am fine. And I have never been so broken. Though nothing has happened directly to me I look around at my family and I see the effect of sin on those I love and it is killing me. I want to be able to do something. In my head there has got to be [...]
More often than not when I’m seeking God’s will, I’m really asking for approval for a certain action. Rarely do I go with a blank slate, with no set notions in the works, and seek what God wants. I ask for certain things or certain outcomes in situations.
It’s never easy to realize when you are [...]
There is never just ‘accepting’ Jesus as your Lord and Savior in the Bible. It is always a call to follow him. Then the person either follows or departs. There is no acknowledging Christ’s deity and going back to life as it was.
I wonder how we view ourselves, and how the gospel has affected the view of ourselves. I think that when everything boils down we can’t help but to think of ourselves of worthy. I know that the thought going through your head right now is some form of a disagreement with me, and I think [...]
Have you ever thought about, I mean put some effort into it, how you view the world? The truths (or really the Truth) that affect how we live our lives?
Living in the Bible belt I think that there are two worldviews for a lot of people. The one that they were raised in (which means [...]
I just listened to Francis Chan’s The End of The World (Part I) sermon thanks to Kristi Clements.
In all honesty it pretty much rocked me. I always have this thought that I love myself, that one of my priorities is me, and I know that I should have this desire to want things for others [...]
I think that most people would define gluttony by a correlation with obesity. Gluttons are people who love food so much that they eat as much of it as they can and end up weighing six thousand pounds. Maybe, but I recently had a thought that redefined the term glutton for me and I fear [...]
I just started reading a book called Humility, by Andrew Murray. It is a book that makes a claim that I have never really thought about before, but under first light kind of make sense. It may be going too overboard on a singular aspect of Christ’s life. Maybe not.
It makes the claim that man’s [...]
I do the administration stuff for LifeGroups at Midtown and one thing I have learned is that I have to keep the proper perspective in doing menial things like sending out mass e-mails to people and managing six or more different lists.
What I have found is that if I just do those things at face [...]
One thing that I have been learning lately is how faith and works go hand and hand. I know this is an age old argument and the what not, but I am going to have my go at trying to explain my view of it.
Paul says in Romans 3:28 “For we hold that one is [...]