Category: Christian Life

  • From the Cutting Room: Habakkuk 3:17-19

    What is the secret to finding joy, salvation, and strength in all circumstances? The short book of Habakkuk answers that question: In all circumstances, find joy, salvation, and strength in the LORD. I had the privilege to preach the ending of this powerful book this Sunday. You can listen to it here if you’d like.…

  • Books that Have Shaped Me: Productivity and Rest

    Do you ever have this nagging feeling that you should be doing more? Do you ever have this nagging feeling that you’re doing too much? If you answered “yes” to both of those questions, you and I are dear friends. You are not alone. I have been on a journey of learning true productivity and…

  • Books that Have Shaped Me: Books about the Bible

    The most important book I have read is the Bible. The next most important books I have read are the ones that have helped me read and understand the Bible better. What the Bible says about the Bible. We first have to realize what the Bible says about itself. It may surprise you how much…

  • Books that Have Shaped Me: the Bible

    God wrote a book. Technically, a book of books- a small library. The Apostle Paul wrote to his younger protege, Timothy, that “all scripture is breathed out by God…” (2 Tim. 3:16 [ESV]). The 66 book protestant Bible is the God-breathed book. God did not breathe out a television series or a YouTube video- He…

  • Books Shape You

    “Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are artificial props. They can give us the impression that our minds are active… But the power of those external stimuli to keep us going is limited. They are like drugs. We grow used to them, and we…

  • Consider Your Second Career

    Military service is for the young. I’ve heard people in the military who are 31 years old refer to themselves as old. That’s ridiculous… well, it would be ridiculous almost anywhere else, but not in the military. The military is for the young. That means that the reality is: you will either die young or…