My soul clings to you,Your right hand upholds me.
Good intentions are evil
The terror of evil is not the horror we see in the movies. No, the danger of evil is that it appears to us as light. It deceives us by…
False Motives
Some people will neglect doing good, because what prompted that good was a false motive. I have learned to thank God for using the false motive to remind me to…
Unshockable
One of the things my pastor says often is that he wants us to be an unshockable people, where we come together and love each other despite all the muck…
Trying to figure out my mess, my broken heart, my sin
When I struggle or my heart is broken or I’ve failed or I don’t feel anything at all, I find myself wanting to figure it all out. I rush to…
Being Stripped of our glory
Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And…
We won’t let go
Because of our sin is more important to us than our spouse, our children, our family, our friends, despite the harm our sin causes, we hold on to it. We…
Madness
We don’t believe that God can satisfy us and so we find our satisfaction in other things. “My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of…
Piety overcoming struggles with sin
I have been struggling with fears. And as I have been struggling with these fears, I am finding that there is so much sin in me. And I am crushed…
The Comfort of facing the devastation of sin
If we fail to make sin devastating in order to sooth someone’s ego, we fail to comfort the soul. For when we flatter and pamper, we give a sense of…
Effectual calling
Some will question God’s effectual calling of men, saying that we must uphold the “responsibility of man”. Man does have free will and responsibility to choose God, but our free…
