For those of you who are joining me in prayer for Meredith, the latest update is that she has been diagnosed with Stage 3 brain cancer. The prognosis is not great. Surgery was done on Monday to remove 1/3 of the tumor (all that they could safely remove). The remaining tumor needs immediate treatment as…
Author: Abi
Elite mountain bike racer, data science student, former teacher...
Heavy Weight
Many times, I put off writing a blog post until I find some gleam of hope or sense victory. After all, who wants to read about defeat, or worse yet, a quitter? With blessing after blessing being poured into my life, I found writing this post even harder than normal. The Lord continues to flood…
Please Pray!
Please join me in prayer for Meredith, a seventeen year old girl who attends my local church in Fort Wayne. Last week, her parents took her to the emergency room after a prolonged severe headache. At Parkview, they determined that the pain was the result of a brain tumor. Due to her age and the…
Miracles and Critics
I have been reading A Praying Life by Paul Miller over the last several weeks and meditating on his comparison of a critic to the praying life. Undeniably, I am typically a critic. I pray, but still rationalize the impossibility of an answer in my favor. If my bank account shows a minimum balance, then it…
The Unknown
Last week, I copied a quote from a friend’s Facebook page about trusting God. The quote first caught my attention not just because it was by Oswald Chambers, or because I thought it was about solid biblical truth, but because I often struggle to trust God. When I’m faced with the unknown, I stress out,…
Application 2012
Every year there is another application to be filled out for something or other. This year, I am filling out the application for the New Tribes Mission Associate position. Acceptance means that I would serve as a NTM missionary, teaching at a school for missionary students in Papua New Guinea or elsewhere. Those of you…
The Most Riveting Description of the Goal of Christian Living I’ve Ever Read – Justin Taylor
The Most Riveting Description of the Goal of Christian Living I’ve Ever Read – Justin Taylor. David Powlison says that the last page or so of B. B. Warfield’s sermon “Imitating the Incarnation” “offers the most riveting description of the goal of Christian living that I’ve ever read.” via The Most Riveting Description of the…
Resolved
The lyrics to one of my favorite hymns begin with “I am resolved no longer to linger, charmed by the world’s delights…” Each new year, the majority of the American population engages in a frenzy of resoulution-making. Every February, the majority of those resolutions are forgotten. I started off this year rather apathetic towards resolutions….
Don’t Die to Beauty
RT: Desiring God John Piper read G. K. Chesterton at the advice of Clyde Kilby, one of his professors of English Literature at Wheaton College back in the day. And this book recommendation from Kilby didn’t come in a vacuum. Piper writes about how Kilby himself was amazed at the world, and that, with a pastoral heart…
Ride Fierce Racing 