Faith takes God at his word and holds his promise to be true for me because I know God would not lie to me.
10/03/25
Fideistic Christianity may look bold, but it is fragile.
10/02/25
He doesn’t consume us, even though that is what we deserve. Instead, Jesus comes down to us and consumes all our sin by taking it on himself.
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11/01/15
The world of Mixed Martial Arts, with all its controversies, is not for the faint of heart. Yet, I can’t seem to stop watching the fighting. Sometimes the bloodier the match, the more popular the sport becomes.
10/29/15
We harbor a clandestine doctrine in our hearts: we secretly hope there is a purgatory.
10/26/15
Is God the perfect loving father for whom we have all longed; or is he an angry, blood-thirsty deity who can only be appeased by the torture and death of his own child?
10/10/15
This was one of the most haunting and soul tormenting verses in the Bible for me when I was growing up.
10/01/15
Getting ready for church is an exhausting exercise for a lot of people. By getting ready, I don't mean making wardrobe decisions.
09/21/15
Why am I not surprised when people have a need to feel, touch or sense God in some tangible way? Part of it probably has to do with my church experience consisting of denominations that place a fairly strong emphasis on some form of tangible, experiential expression of God.
09/18/15
I stumbled down labyrinthine paths, crawled in and out of cavernous pits, got lost a million times, and somehow ended up a little farther down the road to healing. Yet in all those crooked lines I see the hand of God writing straight.
09/17/15
How to enjoy the movie on its own merits.
09/10/15
Ultimately, the lie we have believed is that God is like we are. He is not. Thank God that he is not. He is the Lord who reverses all our expectations.
09/04/15
I once saw a man holding a sign that read: Divorce is an abomination. Repent! That’s it. Nothing else.
09/03/15
As it turns out, all finger-pointing amongst sinners is in vain. Every transgressor just happens to screw up a little differently than you do.
08/28/15
One of my podcast addictions is Criminal. Their tagline is “Criminal is a podcast about crime. Stories of people who've done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle.”
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