I saw a meme yesterday about how easily you can hurt yourself when you’re over 40 – you know, like straining your back getting out of bed or hurting your shoulder while doing dishes. I’m 43, and that meme holds a little too much truth. Two months ago, I started working at a thrift store,…
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Psychiatric Sanctification
Have you ever been blindsided by self-revelation – good self-revelation? I was just standing on the threshold of the Courtyard Hotel with friends, watching the sunset gild the Indianapolis Convention Center when I had a jaw-dropping moment. I’ll back up. I’m in Indy for The Gospel Coalition’s 2025 Conference with four friends (Yes, I’ve been…
Find Your People
For months, the concept of Christ’s Body, the Church has been percolating in my mind. As I’ve mulled over this odd piece of Christian theology, God has been gradually unveiling both his teaching on the subject as well as its tangible reality within my church. For most of my life, I’ve been a bit of…
Emmanuel
I woke up at 4:15 this morning, and I am not a morning person. But, as I desperately tried to fall back asleep, my mind wouldn’t cooperate. Unusually for me, I left some Christmas errands until the last minute, and I spent too many hours yesterday trying to deep-breathe my way out of parking lot…
The Grace of a Humble Birth
And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. -Philippians 2:8 Have you ever held a newborn during its first seconds of life? The most terrifying rotation I did in medical school was Obstetrics. Each of my classmates delivered probably three to…
An Inheritance of Gold and Glass
The Revelation of John. How many Christians are frightened of studying it? Controversial interpretations and the manipulation of numbers and symbols have discouraged too many from studying, or even reading, this book. Gruesome beasts and a lake of fire, a slain lamb with seven eyes – who wouldn’t be intimidated? Like any other book of…
Perfect
For a long time, my family and friends agreed that the only life I could be entrusted with was that of my cactus, Jed. Then Jed, unlike all my previous plants, didn’t die. He grew. In fact, he tripled in size and is still going strong. So, having proven myself worthy of parenthood, I adopted…
Mercy
Yesterday, an 18-year-old man, barely out of childhood, walked into an elementary school and murdered 19 children and two teachers. Children. I don’t know why he did it and I’m not going to wade into the gun rights debate. As an American, I’m past the point of asking why and wailing, How could this happen?…
Weep With Me
Sometimes it’s easy to see why the “health and wealth” perversion of Christianity is so popular. Just be a good person, just check off these boxes, and life in this world will go well. I’m a box-checker by nature. I have five whiteboards in my house devoted to various lists of activities. But I also…
Before the Fire 