Author: Matt
Moments
So, I don’t think I need to tell anyone that it has been a very interesting – and disturbing – week in America. Fear and hatred have been making their rounds through the tragic attack in a Colorado movie theater and through the powder keg that exploded after a comment made by the CEO of Chick-fil-A that was taken out of context and spread and distorted. It is through events like these that it is very easy for despair to set in. → Read more...
The Responsibility of Being You
Last week, I talked about the wonderful truth of how special God has made all of us and about the concept that we’re all living unique lives that no one else will ever be able to duplicate. The reality of this truth means that you will have an unique perspective: yours. No one else has walked the path that you have walked or will walk. You have discovered many life truths by simply living your life. → Read more...
Only You Are Only You
Lately, I’ve been thinking about why we exist on this terrestrial ball in the first place. I know it’s a great question that has haunted philosophers and thinkers and kings and paupers alike for hundreds of years, if not centuries. Now, I’m not approaching this question from an existentialistic angle, e.g., how do I know I exist? (For me, it’s rather plain that I exist.) Rather, I’m approaching this question from the perspective of why did God create me and why did He create me the way I am? → Read more...
Doubt in the Midst of Miracles
A small note: This was written as an experiment to try to understand what could drive someone to doubt in the middle of all the amazing grace found in Exodus 4-17. – Matt Imagine you and your family are part of a group of people that has been enslaved for hundred of years to servitude and indentured labor. It’s been this way for as long as anyone living can remember and there’s no hope. All of a sudden, there comes a whisper of a man – one of your people – who is daring to challenge the king that has kept your race enslaved. → Read more...
Intentional Christianity
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been thinking more and more about living life intentionally. I will admit that the prospect of having a child to take care of in the next few months has been a major catalyst in me pursuing this line of thinking. I have been thinking about how to be a proactive parent rather than a reactive one. For example, if there are experiences that we want to give our children, we will actively pursue that opportunity rather than just wait and hope it will happen. → Read more...
Our Children and Our Children’s Children
I know I’ve said this before and I will probably say it again and again: It is amazing how the Bible is truly a Living Word because it changes with us. There is always something new that speaks to us or suddenly is revealed in a profound way, even when we’ve read the same words over and over. Right now, my Bible studies have taken me to the Book of Exodus once again. This familiar story of the release of the Hebrews from the hardship of Egypt through miraculous signs and wonders, I’ve read almost constantly from grade school and onward. → Read more...
God Has a Plan, Just Wait
I just finished reading the story of Joseph in the book of Genesis. Most of us know this story from Sunday School. It is one of the early Bible lessons that we learn. Joseph, the favorite of twelve sons, was sold into slavery to passing Arab merchants who, in turn, sold him to one of the prominent officials of an Egyptian pharaoh. Through his integrity and God’s blessing, he rose to prominence in the official’s household only to be thrown into jail after falsely being accused of adultery by the official’s wife. → Read more...
Obedience
For my recent Bible time, I have been reading the book of Genesis. I just finished the story arc of Abraham, the patriarch of the Jewish and the Christian faith. Abraham, to me, is an amazing model of faithfulness and obedience. You have to remember that he lived a life without Scripture, without the Bible, without anything written. There was no guidance, but the voice of God. Indeed, many New Testament writers uphold Abraham as an example of this trait. → Read more...
What It All Means
What is the meaning of life? That’s the question man has chased for centuries since he was first awoken on this planet. Why am I here? Indeed, after thousands of years, it seems that man is no closer to deciphering that answer. Like a dog chasing its tail, he keeps going around and around in circles, looking to science to discover the answer, looking to drugs to get out of solving for the answer, looking to philosophy and acquired knowledge to deduce the answer, looking to the heavens (what he can see of it) to detect the answer, looking everywhere he can to find the answer. → Read more...
Enough About Me
August 2, 2012
Calvary
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Matt
I’m tired of me. I’m tired of how petty, vain, selfish and needy I am. I am also insecure, inconsiderate, incapable and indulgent. I am quick to judge, slow to forgive. Sometimes I do the things I should, but more often than not, I do the things that I shouldn’t. The things I should let go, I don’t; the things I shouldn’t let go, I do. My mistakes, my sin, my folly, they all dog me, nipping at my heels, reminding me of a life lived imperfectly. → Read more...
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