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August 2021

August 08, 2021

The Lord is Near in Our Pain- 1 Samuel 1

(This post is the first in a series of expositional posts on 1 Samuel. Though...

July 2021

July 12, 2021

Why You Should Embrace Boredom

Many Christians struggle to read their Bibles every day. If you bring this issue up...

November 2020

November 24, 2020

Love is the Mark of a Christian

I can still remember the ritual we went through every morning in my 2nd-grade class....

November 11, 2020

How to Read the News Wisely

When I was younger, if you wanted to know what the latest news was, you...

October 2020

October 26, 2020

What I Learned from Reading Wendell Berry

For the past several years, I’ve been reading through Wendell Berry’s Port William novels. Berry,...

October 11, 2020

How to Keep Your Anger Under Control

Some sins feel like they stick around for decades. This is especially true for those...

October 10, 2020

What Do You Do When You Struggle to Pray?

Every Christian knows the feeling. You know you need to pray, but the words don’t...

March 2020

March 31, 2020

How Do I Know that God Will Help Me When I’m in Trouble?

When I was a kid, William Shatner hosted a program called Rescue 911. The show...

July 2019

July 09, 2019

Your Sin is Not Your Friend

Early in my Christian life, I heard the famous quote from the English pastor and...

July 01, 2019

Living Like You Have Real Hope

For the better part of two decades, Christians have appealed to emotion and enthusiasm as...

November 2018

November 23, 2018

What Should We Do When the Sadness is Unbearable?

There aren’t enough songs for sad Christians. I realize most people like to pretend that...

November 14, 2018

Where Do We Find True Joy?

We will never truly understand life until we understand that every person in the world...

November 10, 2018

Why Our Culture Needs a Strong Dose of Proverbs

If you grew up in the United States you have spent your entire life hearing...

November 03, 2018

When You Forget Who You Are

Have you ever heard someone say something when you were younger and it didn’t make...

October 2018

October 24, 2018

Living When You Know You Will Die

A few months ago, I walked through the cemetery where my father is buried. It...

October 09, 2018

What are the Marks of Genuine Friendship?

A few years ago, our family was at the beach when a little girl ran...

October 01, 2018

How to Stop Spreading Lies on the Internet

While our culture seems obsessed with rooting out fake news, my social media feeds are...

September 2018

September 09, 2018

Why Do We Work Hard at Our Work?

In 1928, English economist John Maynard Keynes delivered a lecture titled “The Economic Possibilities for...

September 04, 2018

How to Ruin Your Christian Witness on Social Media

I take college football too seriously. I try not to, but it happens every year....

August 2018

August 21, 2018

Why Our Need to Sleep is a Theological Issue

For the last few months, I have been using an app called Moment to track...

August 19, 2018

How to Fight Against Consistent Discouragement

Some days, discouragement sneaks in out of nowhere and overtakes us when we are already...

August 15, 2018

Why We Cannot Stop Speaking about Jesus

A few weeks ago, someone in my timeline posted a link to a Business Insider...

June 2018

June 26, 2018

Four Resolutions Every Christian Must Make about Our Phones

When Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone in 2007, we knew we were looking at...

June 14, 2018

Psalms for Men Who Are Struggling

Men face overwhelming pressures both internal and external. We feel an internal drive to provide...

June 10, 2018

Watching our Words in the Age of Outrage

When James wrote “no human being can tame the tongue,” I doubt he knew...

May 2018

May 14, 2018

God Doesn’t Give Second Chances

Too often, we use phrases to try to simplify the Gospel message, but they end...

April 2018

April 25, 2018

When Your Spiritual Life is Dry

All Christians experience spiritual dry spells. There are no exceptions. We will go through periods...

April 04, 2018

7 Thoughts on the 21st Anniversary of My Conversion

On a Thursday morning, twenty-one years ago last week, I woke up thinking I was...

March 2018

March 22, 2018

Telling a Better Story than Jordan Peterson

At the beginning of 2018, I had never heard of Jordan Peterson, but that...

March 06, 2018

Your Work Is Not “Secular”

Many times, Christians use unfortunate language when talking about our jobs. For some reason, we...

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