The Real World

The Real World

So the fall Holy Days are over again. There’s never any way around it—the Feast of Tabernacles that we wait for with such eager anticipation ends so much quicker than we would like, and as we reminisce fondly over the past week’s memories, we tell...
Submitting When It Doesn’t Make Sense

Submitting When It Doesn’t Make Sense

God doesn’t always make sense. At least, not to us. From where we stand, His decisions and the things He allows in our lives are often confusing, rarely (if ever!) matching up with our own preconceived ideas about how His plans should work—and it’s been...
For Pépère

For Pépère

When we open the pages of a history book, we expect to find the names and stories of great men and women—names that left their mark on the world, names belonging to those figures who, over the course of their lives, changed the course of human history with their...
The Last Trumpet

The Last Trumpet

“I can tell you exactly when Christ will return.” My ears perked up at hearing this, because that is their default response whenever I hear someone announce their intention to do what the Bible says is impossible. “He’ll return at the moment of...
Reflections From a Six-Year-Old

Reflections From a Six-Year-Old

Six years. Has it really been that long? Sometimes it seems impossible for that much time to have passed; other times it seems like a story from another lifetime. Six years ago today, in the presence of God, my family, and a few close friends, I buried who I’d...