A friend of mine sent me this earlier today, and it definitely seemed to be a good fit for a content share. I think today, more than probably any other time in my life, I can sense the anxiety in the world; people are longing for joy. We have information overload, worldly concerns, and a rushed modern lifestyle, and it can cause us to lose that joy, even as Christians. Add to that our own self-condescension, and it's a recipe for being majorly bummed out. But Jesus wants us t

Last night, while sitting in the hospital, waiting for the birth of my friend's child, I got thinking. This, of course, is a dangerous proposition. But no matter how you cut it, the birth of a child is an amazing thing. I won't go so far as to say that childbirth is a miracle; it's a normal thing that happens all the time. Conception, on the other hand, is a miracle: life from that which is (basically) non-life. I realize the oversimplification, but I hope you're following wh

It's Tuesday evening as I write this, and I am currently sitting here in the hospital (I'm writing on Tuesday, but will post this tomorrow, which for you will be today?). Why am I here, you ask? Well, a couple of close friends of mine are about to have a child, and frankly I wanted to be here, too. That said, I'm just sitting in the waiting room at the moment, and figured I should probably make good use of my time, hence getting a jump on tomorrow's (today's?) post. I scanned