Remember the movie "A Bug's Life"? If you have kids, you've probably watched it countless times—children love repeating their favorite films over and over. In that animated classic, a colony…
Category: Bible Study
Praying With a Squirrel Mind: 5 Blockades and 20 Ways
I've experienced five major blockades that keep me from connecting with God and discovered some practical hacks that have helped me overcome my distracted mind.
This is the Hard Part
We have more ways to hear God’s Word than any generation before us. Me? I have three Bible apps, several audio bibles, and e-bibles on my phone. That phone also…
Random Notes on the Bible
Recently, we've seen God's word questioned, defiled, glorified, and deified. It's all caused me to really think through what the Word of God means to me. God's word is peace…
A New Day’s Resolution
Two life altering truths: God is speaking. You have one day fewer to listen than you had yesterday. I rarely ever had those kinds of thoughts in my twenties and…
I’ll Eat the Red Stuff
“Give that uh…. RED STUFF!” And on top of that, he got a nickname: Edom, meaning “red.”
Call Me Desperate
As I read the Gospel, there's something that stands out in so many narratives and backstories. Jesus loves desperate people. Whether it’s the pleading father, the paralyzed man whose friends…
A Crazy Thing Happened on the Way to Damascus
When I think I’ve got it bad, I remember Paul of Tarsus. I’ve had my opportunities to complain but Paul always had it worse than me. Most theologians and historians…
Amos Today
(Based on Amos 5:18-24) Woe and pity to the theological geniuses! The ones that gaze upon the charts of dispensational prophecy. The ones that spend their days arguing their religious apologetics…
The Gospel of Enough
I grew up under the theology of scarcity. It centered around the hear-tell rumours that I didn't have what it took to be a "really good" Christian. There were those repetitive voices…