Finding Hope and Peace in a Messy World

While I like to take things as they come and I am pretty even keeled about life it has been surprising how messy life can be. Most of the time we are so busy dealing with our own stuff that we don’t pay attention to what is really going on around us (depending on how...

How Do We Decide on What is Important?

I read a fantastic article from a professor I had at Western Seminary. I thought it would be helpful to summarize some of the thoughts from that article. We often struggle with understanding the weight of some issues over the other and how do we treat those who may...

Faith vs. Fear

The LORD is for me; I will not fear; what can man do to me? (Psalm 118:6 NAS) I just arrived home with my bride from a few weeks of vacation.  I was reminded in drifting through the Scriptures in one of my daily dives about the simple joy of our security in Christ. It...

Morality for Christians

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace might increase? – Rom 6:1 (NAS)   Morality is a very difficult issue in our culture. We have the legalists, relativists, ideologists, eclectics and a host of other philosophical elements that...