Mental Health Meets Faith
Yesterday, I explained my reasoning for writing this series on being the church. If you haven’t had the chance to read it yet, please do so here! Basically, the aim of this series is to discover what it really means to be the church based on the book of Acts. So here goes! Being the church means that you go. You go. You don’t stand still. You don’t stay in the same spot. You’re not […]
Lately, I have been doing alot of thinking about church. Not my church, or your church, or any church in particular, but the church in general as a collective whole. We live in a post-modern world that holds in high-esteem values that are anti-biblical. People tend to shy away from a belief in absolute truth, believing instead that everything is relative. According to many the highest meaning you can achieve in life is to make […]
What are you waiting for? We are all waiting for something. Waiting for things to change, waiting for things to get better, waiting for someone to care, waiting for someone to love. If your anything like me, you’re waiting for the next step and wondering, when is it coming? What is it going to look like? What will it lead to? How will I know? “Until God opens the next door, praise Him in the […]
A while back, I read an article entitled “Why Does God Require Persistence in Prayer?” Luke 18 tells the story of the Persistent Widow. Basically, the story goes like this. In a city far far away, lived a judge. He didn’t care. Not about people and certainly not about God. The widow bangs down the judges door demanding justice against her enemy. She won’t leave him alone. She is unrelenting. And at the end of […]
No one wants to be in the friend zone. When you are trying to find that special someone, it seems like the worst thing ever when that relationship slips into the place of being so comfortable and so familiar that a “friend zone” relationship has been established. I used to think that way. I think a little differently now. I think Christians especially have the tendency to put too much pressure on relationships. We get […]
This morning’s blog post is about identity crisis. Today, I want to speak to anyone out there desiring a change. Are there any of you out there that look in the mirror and see a difference between the person you are and the person you want to be? I’ve been there. My question to you is what are you going to do about it? Seriously, think about it. What are the changes you want […]
YOLO has become a very common phrase among teens and people in their 20’s. It means “you only live once.” True statement. I agree with it. We all need to be reminded from time to time that we only get one shot at this life and we need to make the most of every opportunity we have. I get it. However, I have also seen the YOLO concept abused. People, especially young people, have […]
“Community” has become quite the buzzword in today’s Christian circles. We talk about the importance of living in community and doing life together. I think what it all boils down to is family. As children of God, we were designed to live as members of one big family. We all need one another. Although you can certainly try to go it alone, it’s alot like trying to climb an icy mountain uphill. It’s difficult to […]
Psalm 18:2 “The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my savior; my God is my rock, in whom I find protection. He is my shield, the power that saves me, and my place of safety. We live in a world where everything changes. We can’t rely on anything to stay the same. People move in and out of our lives. Relationships change. Jobs change. Living situations change. Locations change. Technology changes. Everything changes. In […]
In Christian circles, we talk about “The Word” (the Bible) alot. Truthfully, I think we talk about it more than we read it and certainly much more than we actually apply it. We can all be guilty of that at times. I know I have been. But over the last year or two, more than at any other point in my relationship with God, the power of The Word has struck me in a profound […]