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Brattitude

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.  – Joseph Wood Krutch Everyone agrees that brats are unattractive, but...

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My Glorious Thorn

He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind...

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When Darkness Lost

And the light shined in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. –John 1:5 Like St. Jude, I’m a sucker for lost causes. I’ve been one myself, and I’ve known plenty of others. Some of us...

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Zombied with Children

Our culture’s interest in all things zombie – The Walking Dead series on AMC, zombie movies, zombie apocalypse enthusiasts – is puzzling. The creatures are, after all, nothing new, having been...

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Struggling Isn’t Always so Bad. Here’s 3 Reasons Why

I’m saved and I struggle. Once you read the first part of that statement (“I’m saved”) then you must presume the second part (“I struggle”) without my having to say it. After all, how can you be saved...

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The Writing on My Heart

I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. –Jeremiah 31:33 Like plenty of Christians, I reached a critical point where I...

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When the Young and the Restless Leave Church

Not long ago, my son had some disturbing news to share. He’d attended an event where several of his old friends who had graduated from his youth group showed up. When he asked how they were doing, too...

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“Well Then, Act Like One!”

Art thou a man? Thy form cries out thou art. Thy tears are womanish. Thy wild acts denote The unreasonable fury of a beast. Unseemly woman in a seeming man, and ill-beseeming beast in seeming both!...

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The Unnatural Drifter

People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise...

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Every Weight

When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship The film...

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