When we don't understand things, our tendency can be to cast them aside and pretend they don't exist or to discount them and treat them as if they aren't important. This is often how we treat the Holy Spirit; yet our proper understanding of the Holy Spirit is vital to our walk with Christ. His role in our lives as a helper to us is crucial. Continue Reading
Realigning Our Gaze
When we focus on anything other than Christ, we lose. Our gaze is so easily pulled aside by our idols, by things that seem momentarily attractive, and by the flippant wants and desires of our own hearts. Sometimes, even in our attempt to be righteous and good, our gaze is drawn towards our own sin, even in this we can become trapped, staring headlong into a darkness that swiftly envelops us and Continue Reading
Not Yet…
There is a beauty and richness yet to come, a deep and complex place and existence that we have yet to experience, a joy that we cannot imagine or even comprehend. Continue Reading
An Urgent Life
Every day we are overwhelmed by things that must be done. We are a culture that often moves with haste in regards to the things around us and which exalts busyness as if it somehow measured our status. Continue Reading
A Calling to Engage the Suffering
The question that humanity constantly begs of God is the "where are you" of His existence. This cry often makes it's way into our most desperate prayers at our most desperate times and is typically fueled by anger, sadness, fear, and desperation born out of some sort of pain and struggle. Continue Reading
We Make Poor Avengers
The best movies are the ones where the bad guy receives the punishment due to him. Some movies will carry this theme on throughout the entire film, showing us how horrible the bad guy is and allowing him to run free, terrorizing and damaging people, only to have the hero swoop in at the end and deliver the fatal blow that puts an end to the horror. We cheer. We rejoice. We find another movie Continue Reading
The Things We Forget
In our constantly busy lives, we make such an effort to remember the things that are important. Sometimes they slip by. We don't always intend for them to, but they do. Somewhere in the hectic pace we keep and the life we maintain, those things which we should look to daily begin to be buried in the chaos. Continue Reading
Their Failure, My Failure
We often live our lives feeling helplessly enslaved to the negative character traits we have inherited from our parents. We sometimes find ourselves doing the very things they did, even though we may try not to. Continue Reading
When They Grow Up
"What do you want to be when you grow up?" When presented, this question is usually aimed at little kids, and we enjoy the cuteness of their answers. When the same question is posed to graduating high-school seniors, it's not as cute. Continue Reading
Losing Our Independence
When we begin to meld our independence with how God calls us to live, we strip the cross of it's value, power, and beauty. Continue Reading