3,500 miles in a month marks the end of my four-week trip throughout the eastern United States. The Lord was gracious enough to allow me to travel to Florida and South Carolina to visit friends en route to school in Virginia. The first week was packed full of jumping lessons, time on the beach, ocean…
Category: Thoughts & Musings
Contentment in Pain
If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life. Let us never suppose that He can give us anything that is not really for our good. Let us remember the words of Paul, “He who spared not…
True and Better
Check out this video by Tim Keller: True and Better.
The Uphill Climb to a New Perspective
When you start to climb a mountain, it looms in majestic grandeur ahead. As you walk, pain fills your joints and muscles. The trees are tall; the path continues to wind upward. Yet, reaching the summit and experiencing the feeling of “being on top of the world” is always worth the pain. Gaining a new…
Increase my Faith
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…
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….
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…
Ride Fierce Racing 