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It is foolish to count on having another day of our lives, yet we do it all the time.

The present trials are undoubtedly great, but God’s power is far greater.

As a kid, what mattered to me most were the traditions, lights, gifts, and foods that came along with the season. This year, I am choosing to see Christmas for all that it is.

Being the loving and gentle God that His is, he understands our fear in making bold requests, but He also asks us to step out in faith so that His greatness may be known.

Live a life in gratitude every day of your life–not simply for a holiday each year. I promise it will change your life.

Our God is ever-present and nothing can stop Him–even when He is behind the scenes.

Let us remain tethered to Christ, acknowledging His great direction for our lives.

Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold that they refine; but where shall wisdom be found, and where is the place of understanding?

I see things a little different from how I did before. There is beauty all around us, we just aren’t used to seeing it.

Let your questions inspire you to search for the truth instead of holding you back from the hidden treasures of God’s Word.

We may be in the night right now, but we must take care to keep our eyes fixed on hope like the sun.

There is the latent, but ever-present sound of my own thoughts – concerns, doubts, regrets, complaints, and anger – dotted with the voices of others. I have to make a choice every day and every hour to obey God and follow Christ.

Don’t miss out on the wonderful thing God has set in front of you just because you’re hoping for the perfect “special occasion” that may never come.

Crucifixion is living a life completely transparent, where on lookers can see the grace and power of God displayed through our own weaknesses

Just as the horse must learn to trust their rider, so we must learn to trust our God.

“What can I do to change? To be a better American?” And I wonder whether this question is much different from: “What can I do to change? To be a better Christian?”

GPS—(G) gifts and (P) passions in (S) service of God’s purposes. Each of us has a calling in the Kingdom of God; and getting a handle on it is like having our own GPS to navigate life from a Kingdom perspective.

Following Christ doesn’t always change our circumstances, but how we respond to our circumstances sets us apart from those who do not believe.

I know these are crazy times right now, but I hope you are doing well and staying healthy amidst it all.  I wanted to share some simple tips to hopefully help get you through this crisis feeling healthy and sane.

Perfectionism takes potential worship and makes it into idolatry; it turns a good thing, excellence, into an ultimate thing, perfectionism.

Aim for excellence and you will work in freedom; aim for perfection and you will never be satisfied, let alone productive.

Truth and kindness, a certain strength and sensitivity, persistence and submission, the forte and the piano, the bright glare and the dark shades, crescendo and decrescendo in accord with the metronome’s click and the rhythm of prosody.

My blessings have nothing to do with what I possess, where I live, or what I do. I am blessed in Christ.

Perhaps we could, rather than spurn social media as anti-academic, seek to repurpose and redeem social media for the sake of scholarship, for the sake of truth, goodness, and beauty.

What we become is a function more of what we behold than what we believe: for what we behold are the things we love and the things which shape our loves.

Unless your work truly resonates with how God has made you in your inner being, you may well turn up at the end of your life with deep regret.

There may be no flashing marquee sign or a series of golden ticket opportunities. Do not be discouraged. When you stop to check your “GPS,” you may find that you are on the right path, or perhaps even already at your destination.

I wish my students knew that, in my twenties, I thought I knew a lot more than I now realize I had known back then.

With reading, we must take time. Perhaps it won’t be after the first book, or even the first ten; but somewhere around book 15 or so (some three months in), we might find ourselves different, deeper persons.

Ignorance and stereotypes are not acceptable by any stretch of their definitions, but the distinction is significant. Racism is hatred, and it’s ugly.

Reading is becoming increasingly rare everywhere. Maybe what’s missing from the equation is not so much why one should read as it is how one could actually get going on reading.

An excellent man is one who fulfills his role excellently. Why? For in doing so, he can best render the greatest degree of the kingdom of God on earth as only he can; a unique excellence.

Sometimes I think I subconsciously buy into this idea that my life is leading up to some great moment or that the story of my life is in this rising action season right now.

The man with no tears left to weep,
Sought to stand, to run, to leave;
But the devil on His throne,
entreated him once more.

We are pulled from one end to the other by interests, concerns, and expectations that are wholly of this world.  These distractions, coupled with my own existence in an overly abundant and exceedingly privileged corner of this world, make it so convenient to proclaim Christ as my Savior, yet so difficult to draw near to Him daily.

We are living in a unique time of global reckoning and atonement for the sins of sexual harassment and sexual assault, notably against women.  Women are speaking up and speaking out.

There are some who consider excellence a result of luck. They consider it a reality without suffering, an unfair fortune. But what if the highest ideals and the greatest delights were not received but acquired, acquired through suffering; what if suffering itself was the path of excellence?

What do you do when you feel your work isn’t excellent enough? How should one view the quality of their work? Is true excellence only a wishful dream or is it available to be had now?