I was reading 1 Peter this morning and this verse jumped out at me: “Like newborn infants, desire the unadulterated spiritual milk, so that you may grow by it in [your] salvation.” (HCSB) I just finished a semester studying 1 Corinthians, so the contrast between 1 Pet 2:2 and 1 Cor 3:2 stood out. In [...]
Recently, my (relatively small) church has been touched by a number of losses in a short span of time. I wasn’t very close to any of the deceased, but I knew their families… and I had the opportunity to help put together short remembrance videos for a couple of them (restoring some older pictures and putting them [...]
It’s almost 2am on June 4th, and I can’t sleep. And I can’t help but remember that exactly a year ago tonight, I didn’t sleep this night either. Only last year, I was spending my sleepless night in the waiting room of an ICU… during the final hours of my father’s life. I can’t believe [...]
Some answers are definitely more satisfying than others. One answer that I’ve heard multiple times since I’ve started digging into doctrinal issues is particularly unsatisfying to me. It goes something like this: Doctrine X is true because this is what the majority of the church has historically believed. People much smarter / more educated / [...]
I haven’t been blogging much lately… but that’s because I’ve been keeping myself pretty busy. I’m back in college this semester as a full-time student, for the first time in ~15 years. It’s been an interesting experience so far. I’m attending Louisiana College, a Baptist school. I’m not there to study religion, but several religion [...]
Early in my teens, I had an opportunity to go to a Christian music festival that was sponsored by the only “contemporary” Christian radio station in that area. I was so excited: some of my favorite artists and radio personalities were going to be there. And it wasn’t one of those huge mega-concerts… so there [...]
Reading this book was an excellent way to kick off the new year! Primal is about going back to the basics of Christianity, figuring out what is most important and focusing on that. Luckily, Jesus Himself told us what was most important: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, [...]
I know that it is something of a Christian cliché to say that you received far more than you gave on a missions trip… but it’s so true. My church helps to support a Children’s Home in Mexico, and at least once a year they organize a short missions trip there. This year, we made [...]
You used to be considered “cutting edge” if you had an email account and checked it. But now, even though services like Facebook and Twitter require all users to have a valid email address, email itself is falling out of use and social networking sites are becoming a primary mode of communication. On one level, [...]
Pain is inevitable… but it doesn’t have to be permanent. This book walks the reader through seven universal struggles that cause pain: Injustice, Rejection, Loneliness, Loss, Discipline, Failure, and Death. The authors share stories from their own lives, as well as other examples of individuals who have been through difficult and painful situations. For each [...]
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