Laboring for the Wind

The act alone does not separate the labor; motive plays a role. This poem explores the tension between working in the Biblical sense and “laboring for the wind”–for things that cannot last, a type of labor that leads to disordered priorities. … Read More Laboring for the Wind

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Battling against Sin, Pt. 2

Living well is too important for us to leave it to chance. We discussed in part one about drawing strength from above, but now we must discuss how that strength’s to be honed and directed. As my mentor Charlene told me, you can have the best weapons in the world, but if you don’t know how to use them, you’ll still lose.

How do we fight against sin? We make a battle plan.… Read More Battling against Sin, Pt. 2

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Judges 4: A Study on Contrasts

Step outside into a dark winter night. Close your eyes and imagine the heat of Summer even as your rub your arms together for warmth. Can you feel it? Does a simple definition that heat is the temperature rising because of atoms rubbing together help you at all? Probably not. If you were successful in drawing more than a sliver of warmth from this imagining, it was probably due to thinking of the opposite: a warm hearth, the sun in your face as you lay at the beach, or the car burning you as you enter it after it’s been cooking out in the sun for a while.

That’s because these contrasts help us more firmly entrench our feet into the reality of either extreme.

In Judges 4, we will see many such contrasts between the faithful God and His wavering people.… Read More Judges 4: A Study on Contrasts

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Gen. 6: We’re the Problem

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The news is a complicated medium. It’s meant to tell us the truth, but that rarely sells us as well as the exaggeration. But while many of us aren’t as villainous or as heroic as the news portrays them, we’re still capable of both extremes.

Some people may not agree, especially when you consider that would mean we’re all capable of atrocities like Hitler’s genocide, but there’s no other explanation to why both good and evil are possible. If it’s just some people’s nature to be evil, then why were they such normal children? And why was the “common man” persuaded to put them in power and keep them there?

It only makes sense if we all have both choices available to us. Here are 3 biblical proofs that we—not the circumstances or environment—are the problem:… Read More Gen. 6: We’re the Problem

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It’s Always Our Choice: A Testimony

I was thinking of my life recently. Particularly, I was wondering why I care about God.

Please don’t interpret that statement as sacrilegious. I simply mean that I wanted to know why I’d always felt God’s presence in my life and why others act like they don’t give Him a second thought.

It’s not like I’m a specific breed of humanity: I wasn’t born spiritual. Why did I care about God when so many people who were raised in Christian homes never did?… Read More It’s Always Our Choice: A Testimony

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