I press hard, chest heaving air in. out. in. out. It’s good to be alive and to feel air and blood and sunlight; good to know that this skin of mine still stretches and bends to my whim. Even sweat is pleasant, a foretaste of the shower that will wipe the last two days grime [...]
For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering. For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying, [...]
In a recent post I mentioned how the chaos of life often contributes greatly to my distraction from the things we as Christians ought to focus on. The Lord has a funny way of pressing topics home to me, often from unexpected sources. This afternoon I was listening to the White Horse Inn, a podcast [...]
Fall is here, an early hint, heavy on the evening breeze and making me ache for something more than what I now have. What I now am. How long will this body tarry on its journey heavenward? How long will its Savior tarry on his return to earth? My bones are tired of carrying gravity [...]
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Things tend to get lost in all that life throws my way. Between two jobs, studying, family, and all the other odds and ends of a common week I tend to lose sight of the greater picture of what God is doing. And it’s when I start forgetting that gloriously massive story that I begin [...]
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