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Responding to Pride Month
June is upon us. Traditionally, June has been one of my favorite months of the year, as it is the beginning of summer. The kids are home from school. Vacation is only a few weeks away. The warm weather means flip flops, days on the lake, and laying in a hammock. The past few years, however, I have met it with mixed feelings. It has become pride month in full. No longer a…
Top Five Reads of 2022
It’s that special time of year again: the best books of the year list! I always love to hear the books that absorb their readers, and what I should add to my list. From my own reading in 2022, I enjoyed and recommend the following books. Keeping the Heart, John Flavel “The greatest difficulty in conversion is to win the heart to God; and the greatest difficulty after…
Engaging the World
We live in a world wrought with sin and confusion. There is no shortage of brokenness both near and far: addiction, mental illness, sexual immorality, abortion, gender confusion, political corruption, racism…the list goes on and on. And yet, this is where we live; and so, as Christians we must find a way to navigate who we are in Christ in the midst of a lost world. What…
What is Love?
What is love? No I’m not referring to the 1993 Haddaway song (now I’ve got it in your head and you’re doing the head nod!). But really, what does it mean to love? What does love look like in marriage, in family, in the church? How do we love others? Let’s look to an all-too-familiar passage with fresh eyes: 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 – “If I…
Questions for Christian Accountability
Even though Christian growth doesn’t happen without the Holy Spirit, we are called to be purposeful as we walk in faith and obedience. With that intentionality, growth in Christ means we must walk with others. We need other believers to show us the way, encourage us, and keep us accountable. The first step of keeping a brother or sister accountable is asking good…
The Multifaceted Gospel
Part 1 of a two-part post. Read Part 2 here. I recently wrote that I think many of us have a narrow and deficient understanding of the Gospel. We need to remember, celebrate, and live out the reality that Jesus died to rescue us out of our old life and rose from the dead to transfer us into a new life. Without this full-scoped perspective, we can…
Advice from Psalm 37
How do you respond when you see others doing wrong and getting away with it? How do you feel when you see people cheating in life and getting ahead, being sexually uninhibited and enjoying it, running after money and power and finding it? Listen to the Lord’s advice to us in Psalm 37: Verses 1-2“Fret not yourself because of evildoers; be not envious of wrongdoers!…
Taste & See the Lord is Good
Have you ever tried explaining to someone what your favorite food tastes like? You can’t really do it! How do you describe the taste of steamed crabs, peanut butter fudge ice cream, or freshly baked bread?! The goodness of God is kind of like that – it is hard to really describe without experiencing it. Psalm 34:8-10 calls us to taste the Lord’s goodness: …
What about Social Justice?
What do you think about when you hear the phrase ‘social justice’? Feeding the Poor? Caring for widows and orphans? Black Lives Matter? Equality vs equity? Reparations for slavery? LGBTQ+ rights? Fighting sex trafficing? $15 minimum wage? Loving your neighbor? Just laws? Police reform? Those two words are loaded with meaning these days, and it is a source of bitter…
Fishing and Following
by Keith Lippy One time when I was a little boy my father took my brother and I fishing. I had an open-faced fishing reel that I wasn’t very good at operating. As I attempted to cast the line into the pond, the line snagged somehow and landed far off to the left of where I was aiming for. I began reeling it in and there seemed to be something attached to it that felt like…
Do Not Love the World
The term ‘world’ in the New Testament has a variety of meanings. It can mean the physical earth. It can mean the whole world of mankind and every individual on it. Similarly, ‘world’ can describe the whole world of nations and peoples known at that time: the Roman world and surrounding areas. Sometimes it refers to the world simply to indicate Jews and Gentiles together.…
One Flesh
What is marriage? Is it just an outdated tradition? Just a superficial arrangement? What is the purpose? To answer this, let’s go back to the beginning. Let’s look at God’s original design for marriage in Genesis 2. Here we read the account of Adam and Eve, the first married couple. Genesis tells us that God created…