Fast-paced and entertaning, Donald Miller’s latest, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years encourages readers to live purposefully, but it has the same lighthearted, joyous tone that has distinguished Miller as an author. Miller has a gift for conversational writing that invites you in and sounds like it’s coming from a lifelong friend. [...]
Life is like a game of Monopoly. You may own hotels on Boardwalk or you may be renting on Baltic Avenue. But in the end, it all goes back in the box.
Mysterious and pithy, Jones was full of advice just like that. Life can be horrific or brimming with hope; it all [...]
I’m hunting the sunrise, meeting it headfirst. Soft blue turns a brilliant red at the horizon as the sky is set afire by the rising sun. From thousands of feet in the air, the sunrise takes on a spectacular new hue.
After color, the perspective strikes me next. How often have I looked down [...]
Tomorrow I’ll fly out of Houston at 6:20am to head to Raleigh, NC. I think I’m going to grab lunch with Jonathan Moss, whom I met on Twitter - which will make the first time I’ve met a Twitter friend in person. From there, I’ll have a four hour drive to Lexington, VA. [...]
In his book, Waking the Dead, John Eldredge quotes Beauchene as saying:
You are never a great man when you have more mind than heart.
Always true, it hits me with force now as I’m preparing a Bible study for tonight. I’d just finished reading an 8th commentary on the passage. I’d reread the Scripture [...]
Sometimes my life feels like a carpet that’s frayed along every edge. A frayed carpet could last for years, provided that no string is tugged too violently, but with just the right circumstance the entire thing could come undone. I’m solid, reliable, and stable; I’ve hidden almost every tattered string out of site. [...]
I’ve been reading through John Calvin’s commentary on the Gospels, and although I’m not even finished with his study of Luke 1, I am already thankful for his passion for Christ and for truth.
This quote struck me as I read the other day:
The presence of God fills men with alarm, which not only leads them [...]
This blog has seen little writing lately for a variety of reasons.
For my personal spiritual well-being, I am presently thankful for God’s great mercy in continually drawing me back to Him after sin, for the commentaries of John Calvin, for the calls to repentance of Paul Washer, and for the authenticity of Mark Driscoll.
Dear Lord,
Another day. Another sin.
Willfully chos’n, this time again.
How deep it runs, this stench within.
Backwards and forth, just like a wave.
Both good and bad, do I behave.
Oh gracious Lord, please quickly save.
But this I know, there’s naught in me.
There’s nothing that, from sin will free.
Oh please, dear God, hear this, my plea.
Aching and sore, [...]
Rachel Scott was a student at Columbine High School in 1999, on that infamous day when two young men went on a violent rampage. Rachel was one of the thirteen victims whose lives were taken, but her faith lives on today in the pages of her journals and this book. The book, Rachel’s [...]
