April 7, 2021
Harvest and the Cusp of Night
If you’ve ever made yourself aware of time while sitting beneath the cusp of nightfall, you know how quickly the day recedes and darkness enshrouds…
March 18, 2021
The Benefits Are Not the Best Reason for Giving
Paul credits Jesus with the statement that it is better to give than to receive (Acts 20:35). This is a counterintuitive truth, and flies in…
March 11, 2021
What Discipleship Relationships Can Give You
Image by Sasin Tipchai from Pixabay Competing on my high school speech and debate team forged my development and maturity more than any other pursuits…
March 4, 2021
Fishers of Men
Image by Richard Mcall from Pixabay Two thousand years ago, Jesus walked along the beach at the Sea of Galilee and came across two brothers…
February 25, 2021
Transformation and Sacrifice
Image by ElisaRiva from Pixabay From the moment of our conception, we change constantly from one form to another. Our entire lives are spent in…
February 19, 2021
The Hard Work of Service
As Paul concludes an address to the elders at the church in Ephesus (Acts 20:32-35), he quotes Jesus, reminding them that it is “more blessed…
February 11, 2021
Sparring with Risk, Chance, and Change
Image by Sasin Tipchai from Pixabay Risk, chance and change embrace and spar with one another in a sometimes frenzied martial dance across a person’s…
February 4, 2021
The Risk in Three Birds and a Bush
Image by Marta Kulesza from Pixabay A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. I was a young and ignorant man sitting…
January 28, 2021
Chance and Change For Such a Time as This
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay “ For such a time as this ,” reigns as one of the most memorable verses in all of the Old…
January 21, 2021
Courage, Virtue, and Chance
C.S. Lewis argued that “courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” What he meant…