Which Master Do You Serve?

“I want bigger one,” I hear my son say when offered food of varying sizes. Even at two plus years he thinks bigger is better. I’ve watched children playing with a particular toy only to have others want to play with that specific toy. Usually, after much screaming and whining, the kids involved will relent and share reluctantly. Others will try to clutch all toys within their reach. It is as if they fear that it will all be taken away. From a young age we seem to have an inclination towards hoarding things. Children want, and they want more. Read More...

The first, and absolutely essential, step toward any (or all) of these goals is to develop the godly habit of having a daily time in the word of God. I know all the excuses, because I’ve either heard them or used them myself. Yes, life is busy and full of demands on our time, but if we call ourselves Jesus’ disciples and thus desire to know God and do his will in our daily lives, then we have no choice but to make the time, daily, to hear his voice... Read More...

I made a choice twenty years ago, and even though I'm no longer living on 'fantasy faith', I still feel confident about that choice: becoming a Christian is the same decision I would make today. However, how excited am I to still be single? Read More...

Everybody suffers. Everyone experiences loss, betrayal, pain, hardship, illness, different kinds of deaths. Everyone goes through difficult transitions. Everyone, at different times, is compelled to grieve or mourn. Everyone's had someone sin against them. Suffering is all about equal opportunity: it doesn't recognize education, class, race, age, morality, or gender. Suffering comes to all of us eventually. Sometimes we can see it coming at us and we can bunker down against it; sometimes it blindsides us, and we're left flat on our back wondering: what just happened? Is this really happening to me? And yet, only we Christians are called to pick up our cross and carry it- so we see that God expects something different from us as opposed to everyone else who suffers. And that is what this article concerns itself with. Read More...