Decision Making When we’re confronted with choices in life, how do we navigate them? There’s nothing wrong with considering possible consequences of our choices and weighing them. We can create our “pros and cons” lists and do risk assessments. However, that’s only part of the equation, and it should be the smaller part! Trust in…
Month: September 2022
Job’s Redemption
Growing up in the church, I was taught a lot of concepts about God that I have later come to realize simply are not true. One such teaching is the idea of multiple plans for redemption through history. A summary of this idea would go something like this: Adam and Eve were in perfect relationship…
Itching Ears
In the second letter Paul writes to Timothy, we see him warning of a time when people will go looking for lies. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening…
Righteous Strikes
Open to Correction Confrontation is never comfortable. It can be especially unpleasant when that confrontation rubs up against our egos. Yet we find David both admitting the good and asking that he both receive it and accept it well. Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness; let him rebuke me—it is oil for…