Perspective

I need to be humble enough to realize that our amazing, powerful God can do great things through even my most insignificant action.

The Lord is Near… (or 6 Days Until Christmas)

In lieu of Christmas cards this year, I write. Reflecting on 2009, there’s a major theme I see in everything that’s happened this year: God is near. He’s in the midst of our most joyous seasons, but even more profound to me now, He walks with us in the midst of our deepest valleys. He […]

I Will

Written after reflecting on “Difficulties Concerning the Will” from Hannah Whitall Smith’s The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life, particularly the following excerpts: For the decisions of our will are often so directly opposed to the decisions of our emotions that if we are in the habit of considering our emotions as the test we […]

Believing the Truth

I’m in this weird place when it comes to writing. I haven’t felt the same urgency to write as I have in months past, and I’ve wondered at the break in the momentum. What doesn’t help matters is that I don’t know exactly how much I want to share at present. In light of my […]

Remain

Thoughts at 2:08 a.m. When all is said and done, who I am in Christ is all that remains. . . I must risk everything I used to hold on to if I am to hold on to Christ alone and enter into His rest. “So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of […]