Encouragement to help you through the week.
Beloved, Over the last month and a half, I have immersed myself in the book of Judges, writing a series of devotions to assist parents in family worship. This week I wrote on the final chapters which focus on two…
Beloved, All of us have been in a conversation that was a monologue. It is a pretty miserable thing, unless you are the one doing the talking! In a monologue, an individual talks and talks and talks, not even stopping…
Beloved, Jonathan Edwards was a postmillennialist who had a very optimistic view of the future, and it was a future that included expansive communication technology. Of those living in the millennium (which he believed to be a future golden age…
Beloved, I love my wedding ring. I sleep with it on. I do life with it on. There is nothing that I wear more perpetually than my wedding ring. In fact, there is only one activity that I tend to…
Beloved, One of Tessa and I’s goals for 2024 is to have a monthly date night in which we get out of the house to enjoy undistracted, focused conversation with one another over good food or coffee. It is nothing…
Beloved, My family enjoys poking fun at how ridiculous I look while I sleep. I can’t blame them because though I have never seen myself sleeping, I can only imagine how silly I look. For one, after losing my neutral…
Beloved, This Sunday is Sanctity of Human Life Sunday, a national “holiday” established during the Raegan administration on the 11th anniversary of Roe v. Wade (40 years ago now). It is a day to remember and reckon with the God-given…
Beloved, Pink it a great color. In the recent past, I have sported a pink button-down (salmon, to be exact). In the more distant past, I even had a pink mohawk (that is no joke!). So I don’t have anything…
Beloved, In between worship services last Sunday, my family hiked Guild Trail up to Sunset Rock. Though the distance is not far (roughly 2.5 miles), the incline is fit to wear you out. Tessa, Canon, Owen, and myself made the…
Beloved, “If you are watching us on livestream, thank you for coming!” Those were the very words uttered during the announcements at the church we visited last Sunday morning. The sentence was revealing, and yet I wonder if anyone among…
Beloved, In Sunday school last week, Bob asked a great question: “Why must union with Christ precede regeneration?” There is a certain causal order to the application of our salvation, and I was arguing that in some sense union with…
Beloved, Last week I confessed my “off heart” revealed through an “off morning.” Since then, I’ve become increasingly convinced that the happenings of last Thursday morning were a gracious intervention of God. For they led me to take a closer…