Category: discipleship
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› Read more: Growing Backwards towards Bethlehem
Growing Backwards towards Bethlehem
In a culture that loves ascending ladders, hitting milestones, and surging forward toward progress, I often feel like one who…
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› Read more: When Questions are Your Company
When Questions are Your Company
It’s funny. In the toddler years, I expected the near-constant series of “Why?” from my curious children. Yet, I am…
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› Read more: Paparazzi: Posturing Ourselves to Experience God’s Presence
Paparazzi: Posturing Ourselves to Experience God’s Presence
I have limited experience with paparazzi, but the amount of time I spend glancing at the National Inquirer in grocery lines…
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› Read more: Entangled
Entangled
Every once in a while, I delve into reading about something that is far beyond my mental scope. It’s almost…
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› Read more: What Scares Me Most this Halloween
What Scares Me Most this Halloween
San Diego takes Halloween deathly seriously. One of our neighbors starts decorating his home over two months before Halloween, slowly…
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› Read more: The Love that Fights Against Me
The Love that Fights Against Me
We love the biblical idea of God fighting for us. We love quoting Moses standing with his back to the…
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› Read more: All Without an Asterisk
All Without an Asterisk
In a world prone to hyperbole and full of lofty promises bound to disappoint, it is easy to grow cynical…
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› Read more: Isolation: the Ultimate End of Cancel Culture
Isolation: the Ultimate End of Cancel Culture
Long before Twitter, YouTube, or Facebook, C.S. Lewis understood where cancel culture led. In The Great Divorce, his fictional depiction…
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› Read more: Opportunities Found Only This Side of Glory
Opportunities Found Only This Side of Glory
As Americans, we hear the alluring phrase “Limited-Time Offer” frequently. Often such enticements are attached to special deals on hotel…
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› Read more: A Very Different David
A Very Different David
In our culture and in our flesh, we love flashy beginnings. As of this year, the wedding industry brought in…