The Power of Name

Names carry weight.  Names carry authority.  Names carry identity. What do you think of when you hear certain names? Donald Trump? Michael Phelps? Fidel Castro? Kanye West? Martin Luther King Jr.? Jesus Christ? Each of these names represents not only the person, but what the person was or is associated with.  Names are associated with …

My World Changed with My First Child

Though the world did not change in the birth of my first child, my world did.  The way I understand and interpret things now is completely different than it was a few days ago. In the moments leading up to the birth of our child, I saw the effects of the fall–promised by God in …

The Joy of the Old Testament

As a junior in college, I began to read Scripture more routinely and joyfully. It was in a house with four other guys, that I would wake up and have my time with God and His Word at 8:00 am (early for a 20 year old college guy!). Depending on the day would depend how …

Identity Sources

May we declare along with Paul, “Paul, an apostle­–not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead–and all the brothers who are with me.” Galatians 1:1–2 The unaware reader or uninformed onlooker may not realize that Paul is introducing the message of the gospel …

The Weight of the Word

When we come to the Word of the living God and we read the divinely inspired, God-breathed words, we must come away with conviction of the self rather than compliments of the self. We must come away with instruction and transformation rather than just information and self-justification. When we read the convicting words, we must …