This is such a great reminder! I picked up my car last night after it has been in the shop for over five weeks with a seemingly unsolvable stalling problem (not operator error!). Before I got ten miles down the road, the same issue reappeared, unchanged, after $2000 of work on the car. As a…
Author: Abi
Elite mountain bike racer, data science student, former teacher...
Putting my Heart on Trial
Think not to say within yourself, “No one can know what his heart is. We must hope the best. No one can find out with any certainty the state of his own soul.” Beware, I say again—beware of such thoughts. The thing can be known. The thing can be found out. Deal honestly and fairly…
Matt Chandler on Prayer
RT: Challies
Missions
“Missions is about the worship of Jesus. The goal of missions is the global worship of Jesus by his redeemed people from every tribe, tongue, and nation. The outcome of missions is all peoples delighting to praise jesus. And the motivation for missions is the enjoyment that his people have in him. Missions aims at,…
God is Still God; God is Still Good.
I find myself complaining of minor woes on a regular basis. Yet when I watch these videos, of the story of Zac Smith and his family, and hear their testimony of God’s faithfulness, sovereignty, and goodness even in the face of extreme difficulty, I am humbled and shamed. 1. The Story of Zac Smith 2….
To Come Out From the World
RT: J.C. Ryle Quotes To come out from the world is not an easy thing. It cannot be easy so long as human nature is what it is, and a busy devil is always near us. It requires a constant struggle and exertion; it entails incessant conflict and self-denial; it often places us in exact…
I Feel Like I Need to Apologize
The following is from the 2010 Barna Church Trends report: “The Barna Group, a polling firm that specializes in American church culture and trends, recently released insights drawn from more than 5,000 non-proprietary interviews. George Barna, founder of the Barna Group, indicated that no less than six patterns were evident in the findings. First, the…
Winning the Championship
“It’s not about rugby. It’s about turning out championship boys. It’s much easier to turn out a championship team than to turn out championship boys. We’re trying to teach young men to be forever strong on the field, so that they will be forever strong off the field.” – Coach Larry Gelwix, Forever Strong As…
Coca-Cola or Water: Training the Appetites
2 Timothy 3:1-7 “But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than…
Worth the Pain
Honestly, I’m not sure what inspired the title to this post, except for that it’s the name of the song I’m listening to right now (“Worth the Pain” by Disciple). Over the past two weeks I have traveled across 4 time zones twice, and well over 5000 miles back and forth across the U.S. As…
