“Follow your heart.” This is the message of every Disney movie you’ve ever seen. The movies we watch, the tv shows we binge, the music we listen to — all of it proclaims this message: follow your heart and everything will be perfect. Your heart—which is good and reliable—knows what it wants and will take … Continue reading Don’t Follow Your Heart
Being a parent is one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. It has revealed my pride, exposed my selfishness, and uncovered my laziness. And yet, it’s simultaneously one of the best things I’ve ever done. Amid dealing with the sin it displays in my heart, it brings an immense amount of joy in my … Continue reading Parenthood and the Gospel
Hi, friends. For those of you who follow my blog via email, you can ignore this. However, for those of you follow my blog via WordPress, I want to announce that I have a newsletter! I plan on sharing more personal details in my newsletter, as I have done so far. It won’t be the … Continue reading Subscribe to My Newsletter
The wrath of God gets a bad rep. Not because His wrath is somehow deficient or immoral, but because humans don’t like talking about hard things. We hear one sentence about God’s wrath and we’re preaching fear-mongering. Here’s the issue, though: we need to talk about the wrath of God. It’s too important to ignore. … Continue reading Why We Need to Talk About God’s Wrath
When Jesus told us to love our neighbor as ourselves in Mark 12:31 (and other places), he didn’t mean your literal neighbor. He wasn’t saying, “You need to love those who live next to you, but you can hate those outside your demographic.” Jesus’s call to love our neighbor is a call to love everyone. … Continue reading Loving Across the Ideological Fence
“He that has learned to feel his sins…has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons in Christianity.” (J.I. Packer) We don’t like to talk about our sins. Even as those in Christ—where we know and believe all our sin has been forgiven—we still feel a sense of shame, of regret, of awkwardness when talking about … Continue reading Feeling our Sins
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Think for a moment. Have you ever encountered someone who is what people call a Yes man? This person is, simply put, a people pleaser. He or she is not interested in anything else other than affirming you—or anybody else for that matter. They only make you feel good about yourself and never criticize or … Continue reading “Love” Without Truth
Friends, in case you didn’t know already, I have written a book. It’s entitled Gospel Smugness: Displaying Christlike Character in Evangelism. As a first-time, self-published author I thought it has performed decent up to this point—almost a year since its release. However, as you may know as well, I have written a second book. The … Continue reading Gospel Smugness
“If you truly are sorry,” Brandt Jean said to his brother’s murderer, “I know I can speak for myself, I forgive you.” Forgiving is incredibly difficult because holding a grudge is far too easy. It’s more natural for us to hold a grudge, to let our anger boil over and become bitter. But God has … Continue reading Learning to Forgive
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