Sin Wagon

Recently I was at the College World Series with some of my friends.  As we arrived at our seats, one of my friends pulled out a Ziploc bag full of peanuts that she had brought from home and smuggled past the police officer who checked her bag at the entrance to the stadium.  When she [...]

Do you use your Bible?

How many Bibles do you own?  One? Two? Six? More?  How often do you read it (them)?  Better yet, how often do you use them to study, to arm, to prepare, to learn, to excite, to exhort, to encourage, to love? 
Do you use your Bible as you ought?
The Bishop J.C. Ryle wrote the following just [...]

Meet: Amena Brown

I came across this unbelievable child of God purely by chance. While looking for more videos of Scripture being read I came across Amena Brown. A spoken word poet that captured my full attention with her words and her voice; her passion for Christ radiating through each one she spoke. The first [...]

Telemachus vs the Gladiators

Recently I was at a conference in at Lincoln Christian College in Lincoln, IL and I had the pleasure of listening to James Emery White preach.  He told a story about a monk named Telemachus back in the 5th Century.  This story captured my attention and drew me in, the way the great stories do.  [...]

The Christian War is Waging!

Quick! Put on you armor….your shield of faith, helmet of salvation, breastplate of righteousness, and the sword of the Spirit.
Run out to the battle lines and pick your side!
Are you part of the Emergenites or the Reformers?!?!  For you must pick a side!!!  You must enter into the battle!!!  Otherwise you will be quickly disposed [...]

Three Simple Words

The other night I was up at work and my friend Nancy sent me a simple IM…
God is Love.
Three simple words. Words that I’ve heard hundreds, probably thousands of times together. Three words that I often find myself anticipating a cheesy, cliché, surface level, health and wealth type statement, and I usually find myself tuning [...]

Cubicle Christianity

I just returned from Alaska and it was beautiful.  I found myself on multiple occasions marveling at God’s glorious creation, and I kept thinking to myself how much fun God must have had as he created the world and how awful it is that we have destroyed and abused it since.  As I stood in [...]

What a Name!

 
When you see His name, what do you think?  What emotions flood over you?
Stop whatever you are doing for a minute and just look at His name.
David Crowder sings in his new CD, “there are so few words that never grow old.” It truly is a magnificent name.  A life changing name. A breathtaking name. A name [...]

The Christmas Gift

“What did you get for Christmas?”
I remember this question ringing through the classrooms in elementary school when you returned from Christmas break.  If you could bring it to school, it was in your backpack for recess or before and after school or in some cases during class.  If it was sweet new threads or new [...]

Pray?

Our children grow up so fast. 
It seems like just yesterday that I first walked over to the scale to my firstborn crying baby girl and said to her “Hi Faith, it’s your Daddy,” and she stopped crying. From that moment on I was forever wrapped around her little finger.   It seems like everyday she does [...]