My sad posture towards God
So in the last couple weeks I have been thinking through how I conduct my daily spiritual walk. In this thinking, I have started to think of how I act much like a sullen teenager. Though the imagery is probably something that almost any adult can conjure up, let me explain what I mean. The sullen teenager is the one who lives in his parents house, understands that he is loved / supported by his parents and yet responds by listening to music on his iPod constantly and sighs when he is forced to unplug for family interaction. Though many would excuse this behavior as a “phase”, there seems to be little excuse to me for this attitude of disengagement and ungratefulness. Aaaaaand, we bring this back to me. Far too often I find myself engaged in the...
Sin of busyness?
In many ways, this post could be considered a confession of sorts. I am sitting here, trying to come up with a good post topic and have not been able to come up with much in the last half hour. Part of this is that my life is generally consumed with some many other things going on (crazy job, 3 kids, wife), and I don’t feel like there is much “down time” to reflect on life / the gospel / how God would have me live. A friend and I are reading through Piper’s Don’t Waste Your Life over the past couple weeks and Piper is continuing to make the point that Jesus and the cross needs to be our consuming, sole passion in life. While this doesn’t necessarily mean that we should all become pastors and full time church staff, I am...
Why can’t God just save all the cool people?
So I was listening to a new-ish band the Civil Wars the other day, and was really impressed with the quality of their music. On top of that, it is fairly clear that they are believers in some capacity. As you watch them in interviews / videos, they are talented, relatively good looking and charismatic. Whenever I see people like this, I think, “Awesome, attractive Christians who will be excellent and will bring glory and further recognition to the Gospel through their work.” Wouldn’t it be great if God saved all of the cool people? It would make witnessing that much easier if people said, “Oh Christianity, that faith with tons of cool, likable famous people” rather than “Oh Christianity, that faith with televangelists...
Happiest Statement from the Last 6 Months
I was spending some time with a good friend last night, and we just were talking through various people we know who are at different points in their relationship with God. My general follow up statement to this was as follows - In the past 5 years, I have fallen so much more in love with the Gospel. I am not saying that my life reflects it as much through my actions (to my shame), but I am more captivated with the truths of Jesus and his life and work. This is a pretty stark contrast with people I know who are being challenged by the Gospel and some of the inconsistencies of their life / fellow believers. I am not trying to brag / be proud, but rather trying to simply say this. We have a GREAT SAVIOR whose message of hope and salvation doesn’t need...
Forgetful Me
James 1:23-24 – “23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.” I have somewhat of a reputation of being forgetful with my wife and close friends. I don’t completely agree with their assertions, but it struck me the other morning how truly forgetful I am in even small things. I was getting ready for work in my usual routine a couple mornings ago and all of a sudden I couldn’t remember if I had washed my face within the last several minutes. I washed my face for the second time (I think), but God used the opportunity to call to mind the verse above as I think it applies all too...