TweetI recently ran by this video, put together by The Foursquare Church, and wondered how much it hits home with my generation. As you watch this video, do you find yourself shouting in agreement with the ideas implied, or do you push back against them? I’d love your thoughts, because I want to think more [...]
TweetWhen I want to be reminded of the truth of gospel in new words & ways, I find Tim Keller’s preaching to be a helpful place to look. Without fail, every sermon he delivers ends up at the redeeming work of Jesus on the cross and its importance for every single issue in my life. [...]
TweetWe ended New Life’s Florida Spring Break trip (themed “The War Within”) with a wrap-up on Romans 12. As we spent the whole week talking about the internal struggle between the flesh and Spirit (see my last post),I tried to pull some key truths from Romans 12 about the ongoing spiritual war that surrounds us…illustrating [...]
TweetIt’s a New Year. My friend J.R. Woodward (who recently released this article on possibly my favorite website on the internet) once shared with my GCM staff class that a survey showed that one of the top 3 things people at the end of their lives wish they would have done differently was take more [...]
TweetThis post is meant as a follow-up to to Empty Promises Part I, which I published about a month ago (before a hiatus for my marriage proposal and the holidays). So if you don’t remember the thoughts there, go ahead and re-read Part I if you would like this to make sense. I guess I want [...]
TweetDiscussing the Southside baptism party got me thinking about some greater truths. I think there are some greater lessons about holiness to be learned from it. To explain the title for this post, Dictionary.com defines apologetics this way: a-pol-o-get-ics [uh-pol-uh-jet-iks] : (noun) The branch of theology concerned with the defense or proof of Christianity. For a [...]
TweetThere is a storm brewing on the college campuses in America. With the emergence of the merit-based economy of YouTube, Wikipedia, and the blogosphere, anyone with a worthwhile insight, novel thought or creative idea can be an influencer. For the first time in history, each one of us has a real shot at ”going viral” and become a household name overnight. This decentralization [...]
TweetLast night, my house church community, the SouthSide New Life Team, met as a whole for the first time this school year. You may recall that our church has deemed this year The Year of Freedom, claiming the promises of Isaiah 49:8-21. As a New Life Team, we enjoy forming our own sub-vision; the unique [...]
TweetThe title probably sounds offensive if you haven’t read Part 1, and you probably won’t understand any background of this post unless you’ve read Part 2. Just sayin’… I spent much of Part 2 explaining my belief that most skeptics (most humans, for that matter) aren’t establishing their religious philosophy on purely intellectual grounds. Let me clarify that a bit, since [...]
TweetThis post would probably be more aptly titled “Why we ought to talk to atheists according to methods prescribed in Part 1“. But I I like parallel structure, so it’s part 2. Take this one with a grain of salt because it has considerably less biblical support than part 1 and leans heavily upon my own experience and [...]