Tag: Psalm
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...
A Slice of Truth: Being Good
It’s been said that the Bible has a “ring of truth to it.” In other words, the personal experiences, lessons, teachings, and history contained within the 66 books of the Bible contains truths that are observable, testable and aligns with our reality. If we are careful students of Truth and test it with the world around us, then we can start to build healthy worldviews.
Every now and then, I want to put the spotlight on one thing that I notice that is true about our world and show what the Bible says about it. → Read more...
A Journey Always Begins With a Single Step
The human experience is rife of many wonderful, scary, intoxicating, boring, daunting and mystifying events. It’s been my experience that many things that we go through do not lend themselves to easy classification of one simple emotion. For instance, the birth of my oldest child, Caleb, was an experience that was simultaneously exhilarating, terrifying, sublime and bewildering. It was an amazing goop of emotions that were mixed inseparably with each other. Such was my experience becoming a parent for the first time. → Read more...
Praising God Any Time
Have you ever been in the place where you had nowhere else to go, where you were stuck in a corner with no way out? On Sunday Pastor Ron talked about the woman who was sick for twelve years and who desperately reached out to Jesus for help because she had nowhere else to turn to. Another person that came to mind as I listened to Pastor Ron was King David since I am knee-deep in studying the second book of Samuel in the Bible. → Read more...
Ending the Year Well
Wow. Well, that was quick. Seems like Christmas was just yesterday. Wait, it was! Lame jokes aside, it’s the perfect opening for a quick meditation on what to do in the weird holiday zone between Christmas and New Years’ Eve. Many people are still on holiday, vacation and may still have a couple more Christmas parties on the docket, but by large, most of us have turned our focus on to the party that is New Year’s Eve. → Read more...
Dependence
This is a guest post written by my wife, Amanda, about a month and a half ago. I thought it was lovely and resonated with me. I hope you think the same. -Matt There’s a lot of things that I’ve noticed about the human experience since I’ve had a baby. My son is now 9 months old, and as curious and mobile as any parent would love or dread, depending on how you look at it. → 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...
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...
Mary, Did You Know?
It’s interesting: the process of aging, getting older, usually means that when you hear the same stories that you’ve heard before, sometimes you discover something that you hadn’t noticed before. Life has given you a different perspective from when you heard the story originally. Nowhere else, for me at least, has this held true than the Christmas story. By age 30 – if you’ve been a life-long Christian like I am – the story gets very familiar. → Read more...
What Does It Mean to Trust in God?
February 13, 2015
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Matt
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...
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