Author: Matt
Tethered
As adults, I think it’s so easy to forget where we came from. We’re so used to being reliant on ourselves for everything. We feed ourselves when we are hungry; we transport ourselves to places; and we buy, get and do whatever we want. We forget that there was ever a time when we were small, mewling babes who couldn’t do a thing, especially if our lives depended on it. It never ceases to amaze me how small infants are, especially newborns. → Read more...
Introducing Emma Rose Aggen
Friends, I am sorry, but sometimes God interrupts your life to bring you something wonderful. That is what He did today.
We’re proud to introduce you to Emma Rose Aggen, born on 2/16/15. Everyone is doing well!
See you all on Wednesday. → Read more...
What Does It Mean to Trust in God?
I went out for coffee with a friend of mine the other day. Over warm cup of mochas, we both discussed our current life situations. I talked about how I was struggling with finding a new job / niche in life that would allow me to support my family. She talked about her husband’s search for a new job after losing his. I said that I felt like everything as of late in my life is part of one big trust exercise. → Read more...
A Meditation For a Long Winter’s Night
God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things that we cannot comprehend. For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth,’ likewise to the downpour, his mighty downpour. He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he made may know it. Then the beasts go into their lairs, and remain in their dens. From its chamber comes the whirlwind, and cold from the scattering winds. By the breath of God ice is given, and the broad waters are frozen fast. He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning. They turn around and around by his guidance, to accomplish all that he commands them on the face of the habitable world. Whether for correction or for his land or for love, he causes it to happen. → Read more...
My Reply to Stephen Fry
The other day I came across an article in which the British actor Stephen Fry was interviewed. In it, the staunch atheist was asked what he would say to God if he was “confronted with God.” At first, his answer made me sad because I really like him as an actor. I first became aware of him through his very funny collaboration with Hugh Laurie (“House, M.D.”) in Jeeves and Wooster, their adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse’s series of short stories of a hapless aristocrat and his wise butler. → Read more...
Closed Vs. Open Minds
We truly are living in a cool era of information and sharing. Every day, thanks to social media and the Internet, I come across many artists, thinkers and writers who are writing, drawing and publishing great material for thought and illumination. One such person is Adam Ford who started his own Christian webcomic at adam4d.com. I’ve been following him for a few months now and he’s shown the ability to summarize proper and deep theological insight in a few panels of a comic. → Read more...
Amazing Grace No Longer
Today, I’d like to look at the implications of one of the quotations that I pulled from R.C. Sproul’s book The Holiness of God the other day: “Grace no longer amazes us. We have grown used to it; we take it for granted.” This statement is a staggering one to consider when you consider the enormous price and the power of God’s grace. The Bible, especially the New Testament and the Apostle Paul’s writings, has a lot to say about grace, but I’d like to examine what Sproul said through the prism of what Paul wrote in Ephesians 2:8-9: “For by grace you have been saved through faith. → Read more...
Highlights of The Holiness of God
I firmly believe it is the duty of the Christian to always be learning something about our faith. 1 Peter 3:15 makes this clear when it says, “[I]n your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect.” The remarkable thing about following an infinite God is that you will always learn something new about Him. → Read more...
Noah, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Others and Love God
Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.
– Genesis 6:9
Let’s go on a journey to the distant past in our mind today. We will travel thousands of years backwards in time, past Jesus, past King David, past Moses, and past even Abraham and land on the era where Noah lived. The world is still relatively new, having only had a few generations pass between the time of Adam and Noah. → Read more...
A Vantage Position
March 6, 2015
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Matt
For the past few months, in the middle of a career search, I have been working as a substitute teacher for several local Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) programs. These programs are all located within local schools in the area. Many of them have classrooms that are carved out of vacant classrooms in the school building. School districts that have deaf children who live within their districts will usually send the kids to the appropriate program. These programs are usually outside of the child’s home school district, so some of these kids will ride on buses for trips up to 30 minutes to reach a school where many of their peers don’t live by them. → Read more...
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