by Jeremy | Sep 18, 2015 | Sabbath Thoughts
Nobody wants to be the guy with one talent. One talent is scary. The guy with two talents, he can afford to lose a whole talent and still bounce back. And the guy with five? He can take all the risks in the world. He has five, after all. Losing one talent would just...
by Jeremy | Sep 13, 2015 | Holy Day
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...
by Jeremy | Sep 11, 2015 | Sabbath Thoughts
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...
by Jeremy | Sep 4, 2015 | Sabbath Thoughts
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...
by Jeremy | Aug 28, 2015 | Sabbath Thoughts
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...
