It's at times like these that I understand why some people struggle to believe the Bible, and to believe God. I don't think it's just because of innate skepticism or because they can't bring themselves to believe in what they perceive to be myths; I think they're afraid it's too good to be true. [Click title to read more.]
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New Year’s Resolutions and the Myth of Change
Mark my word: things will change for you this year. The person you will be at the cusp of 2018 will not be, God willing, the same person who walked into 2017. [Click title to read more.]
New Bible Study Coming Soon!
It's easy to miss the relevance of Jonathan's story. Let's study it together. [Click title to read more.]
Your Glass Of Water
I challenge you this year to find a "glass of water" task in which you too will be spectacularly faithful. [Click title to read more.]
Why Fellowship Is Valuable When It Works
At its best, and as an ideal, Christian fellowship is (or should be) a place where we can drop pretenses, get comfortable, stretch our toes, look for and find and provide support, and enjoy the feeling of being somewhere that we're understood, loved, and supported. It's a community where the love of God is, at least theoretically, being made manifest constantly in surprising and wonderful ways. [Click title to read more.]
Why I Don’t Currently Hold An Official Church Membership
Every believer should have a place that they can call home, a place that invests in them, and a place into which they can invest spiritually, emotionally, and financially. In the meantime, it's okay if you take your time finding out where that place is. [Click title to read more.]
The Christian’s Only Necessary Christmas To-Do List
Here is my list of five absolutely necessary things I need to do over the holidays to make sure that my heart is where it needs to be. [Click title to read more.]
Italian Nativities Changed The Way I Think of Christmas
As much as we attempt to sanctify it and memorialize it and put it on a pedestal, everything about the night of Christ's birth was as much human as holy. [Click title to read more.]
The Art of Holding Back
Many believers see themselves as truth-tellers, and well we should. The Bible demands that we speak in truth and in honesty and authenticity at all times, concealing nothing and without dissembling; that is, by the way, precisely why it's wrong for me to tell those white lies. But many believers also believe that truth-telling means "saying how you feel about everything at all times, no matter how hurtful or cruel, whether asked or unasked." And that is not what Biblical truth-telling is. [Click title to read more.]
He Cares For You
I wrote this post last week, in the middle of my vacation, due to an unexpected turn of events that occurred. I didn't post it at the time for various reasons, but I saved it to post when I returned in hopes that it would encourage someone who needed it. [Click title to read more.]
Samaritan's Song 