That's the culture we're in: one where it's perfectly acceptable to be cruel, as long as you're funny and "no one gets hurt." Believers aren't exempt. [Click title to read more.]
Category: sin
Holy Conviction Isn’t As Terrifying As It Sounds
I used to believe that the conviction of the Holy Spirit operated like the buzzer on that old Operation game. But I was wrong. [Click title to read more.]
Focus On The Red Flags
Your spiritual walk is the sum total of all the small choices that you make. [Click title to read more.]
Coincidentally, All Our Sins Always Happen To Be In The Distant Past
It's more than a little disingenuous to pretend that our 'worst' sins are always something that we recovered from a while back, the remnants of a time long-ago in early Christian-hood before we became the strong believers we are now. [Click title to read more.]
Let’s Take The Confession of Sins Seriously
For a lot of us,the confession of sin isn't sobering at all. It's something we just sort of...do. Like showering. It is habit. It is flippant. As we go about it we lack, in some cases, a serious sense of shame, and acknowledge our sins in the same sort of way we acknowledge we bite our fingernails. [Click title to read more.]
Forgiveness For Your Invisible Sins Matters
Here's the peril: I don't think we value the forgiveness of "small" sins. [Click title to read more.]
Perfect Outside, Rotten Inside
Appearances can be deceiving. And sometimes a shiny, polished exterior is enough to deceive us completely - especially when it comes to faith. [Click title to read more.]
The Convenient Vagueness of Being A “Sinner”
It's easy to call yourself a sinner as a shorthand to mean "hey, I'm not perfect." But it's far harder to confess to the actual sin. To talk about who you are when you aren't Christlike. To admit what imperfection looks like when it crops up in your own life. [Click title to read more.]
Putting Down The Bullhorn To Focus On Your Own Sin
We must call out ourselves the way we would call out others before we call out others at all. [Click title to read more.]
No, Satan Is Not Responsible For Your Hangnail
In certain places, the following philosophy is prominent: Satan is responsible for all the bad stuff and everything that doesn't happen how it should. This way of thinking has bothered me for ages for two primary reasons: 1) it relieves humans of responsibility and agency for their own actions and 2) it reduces Satan in some cases to a merry mischief-maker, the Dark Lord of Inconveniences. [Click title to read more.]
Samaritan's Song 