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9 mins read|12/01/15I could’ve stopped it, but I didn’t. I'm surprised that I didn’t turn my back to receive a pat as I let loose from lips, how good and saintly I was. What a reminder, that we are all susceptible to looking for the adulation of others.
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10 mins read|11/25/15To be justified means to be declared righteous in the forgiveness that is ours in the crucified Christ. It is a done deal, and by faith we have it all.
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9 mins read|10/27/15If there was a proclamation of grace, it was an afterthought, given in the sense of “just in case anyone needs this.”
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12 mins read|10/14/15A while back, I drove past my neighbor's house and right there in the street with the rest of the garbage were several golden trophies nearly half my height and still looking quite shiny and new.
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8 mins read|10/13/15Here’s what lurks beneath this seemingly righteous behavior: they wanted to make a name for themselves, these tower-builders.
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10 mins read|09/30/15Just how should we think about our good works in the Christian life of faith as we live that life before others... and before God?
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11 mins read|09/24/15Good people like fist-pounding on the pulpit about the bad things that bad people do in this bad world of ours. It makes them feel better about themselves.
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6 mins read|09/18/15I 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.
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11 mins read|05/22/15The kind of peace Jesus points to can't be achieved with words.
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8 mins read|05/12/15Asking whether one's beliefs are the right ones is terrifying.
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15 mins read|03/26/15On Sunday mornings, when I confess my sins, I say that “I am heartily sorry for them and sincerely repent of them.” But those adverbs are like two accusing fingers pointed at my less-than-heartily-sorry, less-than-sincerely-repentant heart.
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