TweetIn my last post, I promised you a sort of “lab exercise” where you can practice this concept of viewing the world through the story of the Gospel, and assessing what things are true and false based on their agreement with the greatest story ever told. In this post, we’ll consider the topic of vulnerable [...]
TweetSitting in my Romans class (via Moody Bible Institute) this week, our professor recommended a quick essay by George Muller entitled “Soul Nourishment First”. I chose to look it up and read, and found it to be in some ways a summary of things I’ve been learning this week. It emphasizes the practice of receiving [...]
TweetThe following is an exercise I gave for students on the Florida Spring Break trip. I hope it blesses your life also: Consider the following two (partial) sentences: “____________, then the world will know that God sent Jesus.” “Without __________, no one will see God.” These sound like pretty grand, epic statements…if only we could [...]
TweetI’ve now completed my first semester of full-time campus ministry (phew!), and as I unwind, reflecting on all that God has done, some questions regarding my leadership have surfaced in my heart. I think they’ve been there for quite some time, but now that I make a lot of decisions about how a house church [...]
TweetLast week at our Southside New Life Team meeting, I led our students through an exercise I deemed “Uncovering the Real You.” By no means did I expect students to have fully “uncovered the real them” by the end, but I wanted to help lay a groundwork for how they might go about internalizing Ephesians [...]
TweetI admit that I’m still a bit embarrassed to draft titles like this one that demonstrate a recognition of my own greatness, for fear that the world will point the finger and call me arrogant without bothering to ask what I mean by it. So I think my current policy is to only make such [...]
TweetAs you know (from Part I), I can struggle to feel responsible for “fixing myself” as it relates to my sin. I spent most of Part II trying to convince you and me that God has a much better path to righteousness that involves a lot less exasperation and a lot more dependence. Jesus rebuked the [...]
TweetI confess that “accountability” has been a bit of a taboo word for me until recently. Months ago, if you caught me on the right day, you could tell me that you were were going to have an accountability time with your small group, and I would have had an internal response that sounded something [...]
TweetFirst, I should start by acknowledging that I did, in fact, notice that it’s been two months since I last blogged. Hopefully that shouldn’t happen again for a little while, but no guarantees. In case you didn’t know, I was busy getting a job, an apartment, and a wife. I’m not going to write much [...]
TweetI almost thought of calling this post “What I’m Learning” but I decided it was far too broad, and doesn’t actually tell you anything about this post. But this will, in fact, be all about what I’m learning. This whole post is about a process God has been taking me through that started around New [...]