Each Wednesday Jonathon, Dustin, and I post a “Worth Your Look” of some resources we would like to commend to you. Here is this weeks: 9 verses to shine the light of hope and encouragement for individuals struggling with depression. We’re not advocating these verses are a panacea to depression, but our hope and prayer…
Photo by Zach Meaney on Unsplash Part 2: A Summary Post from Tony Reinke’s book, “12 Ways Your phone is Changing You” The twelves ways Reinke shares that our phones are changing us are… We are addicted to distraction We ignore flesh and blood. We crave immediate approval We lose our literacy We feed on the produced We…
Photo by Janko Ferlič on Unsplash “Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.” – Harry Truman. I absolutely love to read. My love for reading began around the start of my freshman year at the University of Kentucky in 1998. Providentially, this was also the time that I became much more serious about living out…
God has graced me with some great friends. Many of these friends have been friends longer than 15 years. For someone who’s in their mid 30’s this is significant. I honestly do not know where I would be without the friendships I have in my life and before you go all “the only person you…
The Bible uses many strong terms to describe unbelief, including hardening, twisting, blindness, deafness, unnaturalness, lies, deception, folly, rebellion and madness, but none repays reflection more than Paul’s phrase in Romans. At the heart of sin and disobedience, Paul says, is a flagrantly deliberate and continuing act of violence to truth. Sin and disobedience lay…
Seven Gospel truths to rehearse to your soul: I am saved. As soon as I repented from my sins and believed in the gospel, my sins were forgiven and I received the Holy Spirit. This is real. Romans 10:13; Ephesians 1:13-14 I have Jesus’ perfect record put to my account. 2 Corinthians 5:21 No longer…
In denying Christ Peter said, “I do not know the man” (Matthew 26:74). Those who follow Christ must say that to themselves. Self-denial means knowing only Christ; no longer knowing oneself. It means no longer seeing oneself, only Him who is going ahead, no longer seeing the way which is too difficult for us. Self-denial…
The problem and issue of evil is something that Christians need to be more biblically knowledgeable and competent in their explanation of. This is a helpful post. You can read the original post here. If God is all-good and all-powerful, why is there so much evil and suffering in the world? This question, the age-old “problem…
Official persecution was lifted and being a Christian — at least in name — became popular and prudent. Constantine left Rome and built a “new Rome” in the East as the new imperial capital of the empire. He chose the city of Byzantium (today’s Istanbul in Turkey) and renamed it after himself: Constantinople. The most…
Theology Along the Way 