I’m 25. I have student debt, a credit card bill, and want an electric toothbrush for my 26th birthday, which means for all intents and purposes, I’m an adult now. It’s an awkward time for me and my parents. They’re no longer super human or omniscient in my eyes. I love respect, and honor them, …
Can you imagine the kind of inner conflict Gideon had right before he led that army of 300 men onto the battle field? Let’s humanize him for a second. I think he threw up a few times once he told Yahweh ‘Yes, I’ll do it’. And then I think he had a full-on panic attack …
Someone (who I love very deeply, so what they say matters to me) recently told me that, based on the tone and content of my most recent blog posts, it sounds like I’m still struggling with depression. Long after that conversation happened I started to pick a part my emotional response and ask myself why …
I think we all struggle, to some degree, with recklessness. For some people, recklessness looks like drug addiction and alcohol dependence, for others it looks like binge eating or uncontrollable rage. For me, it looks like the careless wasting of time and the willful ignorance of truth and healthy perspective. Recklessness looks like dishonesty with …
Nobody likes to talk about loneliness. I don’t. I’m sure you don’t. When I come to terms with the fact that I’m feeling lonely, I feel weak. I feel weak because loneliness causes me to ask myself why my own company is not enough, and in honestly answering that question, I have to contend with …
You know what’s pretty amazing to me? The way Yahweh silences fear with truth. I used to have a really big fear of running out of things to say. I mean like honestly running out of content, things to write about, life experiences, stories to tell. I would work myself into a stuck state where …
I wonder if David ever thought about going back to being a shepherd. I feel like when we think about his story, we always focus on two parts: the pasture and the palace. We start with him killing the lion, the bear, and the giant, and then fast forward to him being crowned king of …
I know what it’s like to want someone to notice you. Not in a romantic way, but in an intimate, soul-searching kind of way. I know what it’s like to want to be seen – beyond the frivolous and the obvious, beyond the external and the spoken – for as long as I can remember …
One of the things that I am absolutely sure of is that Yahweh speaks. But He doesn’t just speak – He communicates. He converses. Yahweh speaks, and when He speaks to us, He means every word He says. Every idea He communicates is sound, every revelation can be taken to heart, every prophesy can be …
If you grew up in church like I did, you’ve probably heard the phrase “Speak life” more than once. It’s usually used in situations where circumstances may seem dim or even devastating, and the intent is to encourage the downtrodden person to say positive things that exactly contradict their circumstances. For instance, if a person …