Literally Abraham
Be like Abraham. Share in his faith. Believe what he believed in the way that he believed it.
Read MoreBe Slow To Speak
There is wisdom in silence. There is wisdom in waiting to make your judgment until all the pertinent evidence is on the table. There is wisdom in not jumping to conclusions. There is wisdom in not automatically trusting everything those with ideological agendas say you ought to believe.
Read MoreReceiving Evil from God: Christ & COVID-19
You cannot read the Bible at face value and come away with the ideas that God has nothing to do with the current epidemic coursing through the world or that He never has anything at all to do with the difficulties that come into our lives. Only a Bible read through dense, thick lenses of wishful thinking and insistence on our own definitions of love and goodness can be made to reach that conclusion.
Read MoreIf Your Christianity Is Easy, You're Doing It Wrong
The true Christian disciple understands that he has been called to a life defined by struggle, war, striving, suffering, endurance, competition and labor.
Victory is assured, but only if you get in the fight.
Read MoreFather & Sons
If, in my own sinful, imperfect and flawed attempts, I manage to love my son in any sort of microscopically fractional way that could somehow be relatable to how God loves me (and, of course, by extension, all of His children), then the words of Christ begin to open themselves to my understanding in all kinds of new ways.
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