Open Letter to Governor Abbott
These industries contribute to what makes Texas unique and cannot endure for long as your office hinders them due to inadequate standards and definitions.
Joy in the Journey
Consider the work of God: who can make straight, what He has made crooked. He has made it crooked for His glory, to turn your face to Him. Shall we rejoice, even in this crooked journey? Yes! His grace is sufficient.
Finding the Root of Joy
We clip away activities. We change locations. We do everything on the surface except examine our roots. True joy can only be rooted in our union with Christ.
always three more
children, days, shamrocks,
the beers I put down with you,
hours 'til home, three more exits
thrice more round the turntable
The Cruciform Marriage
Marriage often seems a zero-sum game: I get what I want at the expense of your giving up something you want. This fuels discontentment, which is a close cousin to the bitterness which poisons and kills so many marriages.
Music Review: Extra Nos
Overall this album will shake things up in the CHH world. Some are already calling for a response, while many others are being exposed to historic reformational thought. Great album.
acts 17:28
in him I will live forever,
move,
and have my being
my feelings vs. the church calendar
This calendar is neither commanded nor forbidden. And for me, it shoulders some of the burdens. It is an invitation to follow a slightly different year, not the 12-month hustle, but the rotating, repeating seasons of the church.
Book Review: The Forsaken Monarch
Amy Mantravadi has given readers the chance to learn about the whole of Maud’s life and in doing so has honored not only a great woman of history but also an underrepresented and poorly understood period of English and European history. I hope Amy Mantravadi will receive the recognition her research and writing deserve.
Longing For The Bride
This Advent I want to start longing for his bride again. You cannot have Christ without his bride, and you cannot love and serve Christ without loving and serving his bride.
The Cruciform Single
Single or married, your identity is in Christ because you, now and always, are in Christ. So live like that’s your identity, because, after all, it, and it alone, is.
On Providence
The knowledge that God’s providence is the determining factor of reality—even when the circumstances are terrifying or full of grief—is a light in the darkness (Psalm 23:4).
The Secret Power of Christ's Weakness
In the incarnation, Christ did something better and more complete than all the heroic rescues of medieval romance combined. In emptying Himself of majesty, He gained one seemingly insignificant ability that would become the crowning perfection of His power.
Meal, Manna, Medicine
Most Sunday mornings I am, by God’s grace, to be found wobbling up to the rail with other sinners. Any doctrine of the Supper that requires I ascend into the heavenlies to feed there with Jesus is entirely too much to ask of me.