A GOSPEL BLOG
Lord, I am becoming increasingly cynical. I don’t trust people, particularly those in the media who seek to influence the narrative surrounding COVID, politics, racism, gender, and so on. Fear has so permeated our culture that everyone is plagued by it’s persuasiveness. It feels like people are coming unglued. Even in the church, Lord, we [...]
If you are a parent or know anything about children, you’ll be familiar with the famous road trip question, “Are we there yet?” Children ask it repeatedly during road trips. Although it gets annoying, it’s a fair question. After all, traveling is not the point of a road trip. The destination is the point. Children [...]
We don’t think enough about death — that vicious foe who devours our days. We will all experience it, likely sooner than we think. How can we ready ourselves for life’s inevitable end? Perhaps the best preparation for death happens when we die to what C. S. Lewis called our “ambitions and favourite wishes.” It [...]
Blessings to you this new year. Here’s a list of articles and blog posts from around the web. Everything listed here was encouraging, helpful, or informative to me during the month of December. “Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if [...]
According to various internet sources, an adult makes roughly 35,000 decisions a day. If that’s true, on average, we make twenty-four decisions every minute. It would be interesting to know how many of those decisions we later regret — decisions such as eating that extra slice of pizza, hitting the snooze button too many times, [...]
It seems like everyone is posting lists of their favorite books for 2021. After reviewing many such lists, I felt inspired to share one of my own. None of the titles listed here were published in 2021. These are simply the books I read that stood out to me and made my year a little [...]
By and large, we live in a world that discourages risk-taking. Many of us, knowingly or unknowingly, have been conditioned to take the safe route through life’s twists and turns. I sometimes wonder how many people have been dissuaded from doing risky, world-changing things simply because it wasn't "realistic" or in line with "the way [...]
Jesus Musings 