Words For Battle

When I was a kid in church, I remember this song we used to sing. I mostly remember it because the chorus seemed to repeat on a loop over and over. It went something like this: Standing, standing, Standing on the promises of God my Savior! Standing, standing,...

The Reset Button

As a culture, we love post-apocalyptic movies, don’t we? I mean, how many movie trailers start off with a desaturated camera pan across a deserted wasteland in the not-so-distant future? I always thought we were just so scared of the end of the world as we know...

More Than A Prophet

When I was a little kid, I loved exploring the world for hidden treasures. My best friend and I would search through overgrown fields, thorny wood thickets, and even damp sewers (Not a whole lot of treasures down there!) in search of cool artifacts. Mostly, our...

Darkness and Light

Darkness and light. Typically, when I think of dark and light imagery in the Bible, I think of goodness and evil, or perhaps the contrast between life and death or holiness and sin. There’s the verse in John that calls Jesus the “true light, which gives...

Silence

We live in a world saturated with distractions and noise and, sadly, we’ve become way too accustomed to it. Somewhere along the way, it became the new normal. And now our fleeting attention spans actually yearn for the chaos! We find ourselves surfing hundreds...