suffering The Value of Suffering in Sanctification (Part 1) 24 Oct 2019 The idea that hardship, trials, sufferings, and/or sorrows might be valuable to us is a ludicrous idea in our modern cultural context. Our culture views suffering as something to be…
Community Rethinking Christian Community (Part 3): The Problem of Consumerism 23 Oct 2019 Our days can sometimes feel as thought they are filled with constant advertisements for some better version of life. We are constantly being solicited with products and experiences that we…
Books A Review of “Contentment” by Megan Hill 14 Oct 2019 Good devotionals are hard to come by. Most of the time devotional type literature tends to be fluffy, lacking expositional depth and meaningful doctrine. The 31 Day Devotionals for Life…
Community Rethinking Christian Community (Part 2): The Problem of Mobility 9 Oct 2019 It's easy to complain about the church. It's not my intent, in this series, to complain. My hope is to highlight some areas of weakness in the modern church that…
Anxiety Anxiety’s False Interpretations (Part 9): Feeling-Based Reasoning 8 Oct 2019 We live in a fallen world, which means that we ourselves have been negatively impacted by that Fall. We know this in our bodies, as we experience aches and pains…
Anxiety Anxiety’s False Interpretations (Part 8): False Shoulds 1 Oct 2019 The word "should" connotes some level of moral obligation. We should worship God. We should honor our father and mother. We should tell the truth, flee sexual immorality, and restrain…
Anxiety Anxiety’s False Interpretations (Part 7): Nearsightedness 18 Sep 2019 Myopia is a fairly common vision problem where objects that are far away tend to be blurry. The light penetrating the eye cannot focus on the retina properly, and as…
Anger On Building and Venting Anger 29 Aug 2019 There are two popular theories about how to best escape the hold of our angry emotions. On the one hand we often depict anger like the boiling water in the…
Community… Rethinking Christian Community (Part 1) 28 Aug 2019 I was not the first, nor will I be the last, young man to read through the book of Acts have questions. As a high school student I remember meeting…
Anxiety Anxiety’s False Interpretations (Part 6): Generalizations 27 Aug 2019 A bad experience does not predetermine the future. It can certainly feel this way at times, and when it feels like one bad thing after another comes our way it…
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