On the recommendation of a fellow female athlete, I picked up Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man’s World by Lauren Fleshman last week and I have NEVER FELT SO HEARD. Though I did not get into sport in middle or high school and don’t have specific memories of the transition from…
Category: Books
The Prodigal God by Tim Keller
The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith, Tim Keller This is a book not about one prodigal son, but about two sons and a prodigal God. Tim Keller begins by defining prodigal as “recklessly spendthrift.” Simply, to be prodigal is to spend until you have nothing left. It is within this context…
Surprised by Grace: God’s Relentless Pursuit of Rebels by Tullian Tchividjian
Surprised by Grace: God’s Relentless Pursuit of Rebels by Tullian Tchividjian I have wanted to read this book ever since I first heard about its publishing. Being a rebel by nature, the very title caught my attention. That God would relentlessly pursue even me is the theme of my own personal testimony, but is also…
Just Do Something by Kevin DeYoung
Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God’s Will by Kevin DeYoung What should I do with my life? Where should I go to college? Do I buy this car or wait for a better deal? What is God’s will? Young adults are not alone in their quest to find God’s will for their…
Holy Subversion: Allegiance to Christ in an Age of Rivals by Trevin Wax
Holy Subversion: Allegiance to Christ in an Age of Rivals, by Trevin Wax Ed Stetzer writes in the foreword of Holy Subversion, “The lordship of Jesus Christ should permeate every area and aspect of the believer’s life; that alliance with King Jesus should subvert the idolatrous forces of the heart and the culture to impact…
Unfashionable
“I want the evangelical church to be the church. I want it to embody a vibrant spirituality. I want the church to be an alternative to post-modern culture, not a mere echo of it. I want a church that is bold to be different and unafraid to be faithful,…a church that reflects an integral and…
Two Words
“There are two little words in our language that I always want you to remember: try and trust. You do not know what you can do until you try, and if you trust God through your trials, mountains of imaginary difficult will vanish as you approach them, and doors will open up that you could…
Scarlet Letters
“You were Romeo, I was a scarlet letter…” The lyrics of “Love Story” by Taylor Swift refer back to two classic literary tales. Shakespeare’s Tragedy meets Nathaniel Hawthorne in country music. Or something like that. Having just recently read The Scarlet Letter, I found this allusion to the ignominious scarlet letter within Taylor Swift’s song…
Thoughts
“Everything in your spiritual life depends on the sort of God you worship. Because the character of the worshiper will always be molded by the character of what he worships: If it is a cruel and revengeful God, the worshiper will be the same, but if it is a loving, tender, forgiving, unselfish God, the…
Quotes: Humility
“At every stage of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend.” – John Stott (as quoted in Humility: True Greatness by C.J. Mahaney, p. 29) “God cannot bar with seeing his glory appropriated by the creature in even the smallest degree,…
Ride Fierce Racing 