How exactly do you address the new normal? How do you capture, in something as limited as language, just how immensely one person can radically alter your entire life? How do you properly contextualize not only a new living soul, but one that will be connected to you for every second of the rest of your life?
I guess by saying welcome, son.
Read MoreThe Bible, divinely conceived, concocted, and compiled, turns out to be not merely divine, but also profoundly, honestly, and unabashedly human. It does not shirk away from the brutality that is mortal life, broken by sin and so often defined by pain. It is honest both about our current reality and our desperate need for God in the midst of it.
Read MoreFor ourselves, when our moment comes, when all has passed away, when we are at our end, all that will matter is if we can answer "yes" to one question: are we saints?
That success story lasts an eternity.
Read MoreThe world tells us that all of reality is within our grasp - that everything that is real can be observed, studied, and understood.
Christ tells us something else entirely.
Becoming a man of the Word may in fact be in the highest purpose of your life. If you are Christ’s man, then you were called to devote yourself to the teachings of His Scriptures. You were called to learn them, understand them, and conform your life to them.
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