We are to share the truth of the Gospel in love, gentleness, and respect, but this necessitates sharing this truth in the first place.
Accept One Another: A Devotion
“The whole crux of Christianity rests on the fact that ‘while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.’ So to know Christ’s acceptance is to know, not cognitively but experientially, that even at our lowest, our worst, our downright bad and ugly, Christ proclaims, ‘He is mine, she is mine, they are mine.’”
Gospel Over Envy: A Devotion On Where Our Value Lies
"...apart from God’s undue work of grace in your life, calling you to faith and repentance, you would be lost in sin and confined to hell forever. With this Gospel truth there is no room for envy or boasting. Either you have the fullness of God’s love displayed on the cross, or the fullness of God’s wrath remains on you..."
Isn’t [God] the one who checks in to see if we got his message and if we’re at all free today or this weekend and if we’re okay. Aren’t we commonly the ones who have ‘too much to do’ or who shrug off sharing ourselves with anyone else when we don’t really have to
An Ode to Breaking
"I formerly would have said that North Park broke me when in actuality God broke me, which I later realized was done only to put me back together, this time, changed."
Luther & The End of Striving
Here was a man bogged down by the weight of his own striving. The more religious he became the greater the chasm between himself and God widened...
A Brief Thought on Christian Moral Language
A while back I had a debate with a friend of mine on the practice of euthanizing oneself which has been legal in a couple European countries, and most notably has been legalized in California. The irony of the whole thing is that my friend...
Narcos, Pablo Escobar, & the Homecoming We Get But Don't Deserve
Narcos is a crime drama series that covers the rise and fall of Colombian drug kingpin, Pablo Escobar. Chronicling Escobar's life from his entry into the exportation of cocaine to his quickly acclaimed reputation as a ruthless leader of the Medellin Cartel, Narcos...