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When Things Go Wrong

Trusting in God and His strength was the only thing I had left to keep me going at work last week. My best efforts seemed to fail me and those around me, but there was no choice but to press onward. As discouraged as I was, all I could do was lean on G …

A Broken Obsession

In her recent post on Her-Meneutics, Megan Hill discusses “The Very Worst Trend Ever.” And, no, it’s not using the term YOLO or naming your children after fruit or even wearing leggings as pants. Hill thinks the worst trend in the Christian community r …

Just Enough for Today

I walked past this quote every day during my sophomore year of college, where someone had posted it on the wall outside of my dorm room. It’s from Elisabeth Elliott’s (wife of slain missionary Jim Elliott) book Quest for Love. “If you are single today, …

God’s Comforting Presence in Disappointment

  Last week my family and I celebrated the Fourth of July at a cookout with my wife’s parents. We had already spent a couple lazy hours at our local pool with our three kiddos, and next up on the agenda was hanging out at Grandpa and Grandma’s pla …

Embracing Imperfection in Relationships

I’ve mentioned before how much I love looking at quotes on Pinterest. Well, I found one the other day that resonated with me and my approach to dating: “We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfect …

Taming the Online Tongue

This may not be the right topic for an online blog in which commenting is welcomed. But I’m doing it anyway. I’m a rebel like that. Back in 2005, I helped start a webzine for college students. One of its features was a forum where our readers could res …

Getting Good at Failing

If I’m honest, there’s not a whole of things that I’ve failed at in my life. I mean, not really. Sure, there were tests in school I didn’t ace and sports games where my team didn’t win, but in terms of really major screw-ups, I can’t point to much in m …

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