As He Is

As He Is

The hardest thing about being a Christian, in my experience, is being a Christian—that is, a physical being from a physical world trying to follow a spiritual God from a spiritual world. It’s a battle—a constant, unending battle between the will of the flesh and...
Le meilleur des mondes possibles

Le meilleur des mondes possibles

Mr. Blackwell’s fifth-grade social studies class. That’s the question everyone asks, isn’t it? “Where were you when it happened?” That’s where I was. Eleven years old with no idea that we even had a World Trade Center, much less...
Not Now, Not Ever

Not Now, Not Ever

In English, a double negative flips a sentence on its head. To say that something was “not without its challenges” is just a confusing way of saying, “there were some challenges.” If an effort “didn’t go unnoticed,” it just...
How Much Sin Can You Handle?

How Much Sin Can You Handle?

Zero. The answer is zero. You can handle sin about as effectively as you can handle bullets in your vital organs—that is to say, not at all. Sin destroys. Sin requires a life. Sin devours potential and crushes hope and separates you from God, which means there is no...