“Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will lift you up.” –James 4:10 It’s hard to believe that it is already mid-November.  Ten and a half months into my year-long intimacy fast, and I have never felt so alive! If you are in-touch with pop-culture, I’m sure you’re familiar with “No Shave November”–a month dedicated [...]

Alright, swinging back to where we left off–let’s take a deeper look at what it means to be a Godly man. Men, you will likely be very convicted by the next few blog posts, if you weren’t already by the first of this series.  But that’s okay–that conviction is a good thing. Let these words [...]

“I will love you for you. Not for what you have done or what you will become. I will love you for you. I will give you the love that you never knew…”            –God I was recently introduced to this song and absolutely fell in love with it.  What a [...]

So how is it, then, that we can be 100% righteous in our POSITION, but must constantly strive towards righteousness in our CONDITION?  We understand that the Bible is our “How To” guide on EXACTLY what a righteous life looks like, but how can we be both ‘all’ and ‘nothing’ at the same time? Let’s [...]

Alright, to pick up where we left off, let’s take a look back at this awesome visual… We discussed an overview of what the graph represents and what the lines and colors represent up until the big “dot”. Then we discussed that, BAM!, that dot represents something so unbelievably powerful–that dot represents our salvation! (If [...]

I fancy myself a mosaic, a mosaic constructed by God. Intricately made, passionately displayed, beautifully humble, yet odd.   For I once was I clean sheet of glass, free from blemish or flaw. I was polished and buffed, fragile but tough, pure and simple, yet raw.   What you must understand, is a clean pane [...]

I want to keep the explanation of these three pillars as simple as possible.  There are countless scriptures and historical principles I could throw at you, but the belief of those scriptures touches on the third point, and that is something we have yet to cover, so I will write with simplicity and generalization for [...]

“Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass … Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him.” Psalm 37:4,7 Two hours into my drive, my mind was exhausted from [...]

“…For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more…” Luke 12:48 With the control placed back in God’s hands, I entered college a semester early and began to adjust to a very new life.  Eager to explore [...]