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Granite, Graves, and the Grace Required to Grow 3/3
Faith | faith
The only thing that separates any of us from being the walking wounded turned walking wounders? Grace. Grace alone.
READ Granite, Graves, and the Grace Required to Grieve 2/3
Faith | faith
It wasn't until high school or college that I became aware of some of the complex layers and dynamics. I much preferred the obliviousness of childhood.
READ Granite, Graves, and the Grace Required to Grieve I/3
Faith | faith
What do you say when the only true things are hard things and the things that would best be said, are not true?
READ Last Place Winners
Faith | faith
Do you know why the Bible says, "My flesh and heart may fail... BUT God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever?"
READ The Ancient God of Current Events
Faith | faith
Did you wonder if the God of the Bible could still captivate, activate and change the whole world at once?
You should not be wondering now.
READ “Millstones! Get Your Millstones!”
Faith | faith
Friends, the clearest and best indicator of the judgement awaiting us is our utter inability to value life or protect children. Millstones! Get your Millstones!
READ A Holy Hard Pass
Faith | faith
Why do we allow ourselves to assume the postures and positions of the guilty or condemned when such a precious price has been paid to make us free? Be done. Gonna be a hard pass here.
READ Boomers, Groomers, and a Little Perspective on Purity Culture
Faith | faith
Beware the progressive voice condemning yesterday's "purity culture," if that same voice is condoning today's radical transgender culture.
READ Foolish Objections, Charlie’s Chocolate Confections, and the Idiocy of Immorality
Faith | faith
This week saw the saintly and censoring eyes of the mob turn to Roald Dahl's smutty books--like Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and BFG... obviously, very dangerous books.
READ Fear Not… For Real.
Faith | faith
Believer. You are a child of the Most-High God. Pride in being so greatly affected, by so very little... has no place in your heart, mind, mouth, or habits. Build a bridge. Get thee over it.
READ Billy, Lottie, and the Burden of the Body
Faith | faith
How many teenagers are we expecting, encouraging, or equipping as though they will change the entire world?
READ “Judge Not” Does Not Mean “Have No Discernment.”
Faith | faith
It's a thing. You can make observations, valuations... wait for it... differentiations (isn't vocabulary fun?!) WITHOUT BEING GUILTY OF CONDEMNATION.
READ Cloudy with a Chance of… Coughing, Cancer, and Birth Defects?
Faith | faith
The sky turned black in the day, fish floated in streams, animals died in their pins, crops... food... skin... tumors... Plagues in East Palestine?
READ DANGER! NUCLEAR FAMILY AHEAD!
Faith | faith
Take cover! There is a functional, nuclear family ahead... complete with loving marriage between man and wife... the horror!!
READ Halftime’s Rihanna, Asbury’s Revival, and Our Need to Worship
Faith | faith
The young people that we think require the lights, the look, and the loud... to encounter the LORD? Don't.
READ This Is Worship. Part I
Faith | faith
This is the first of two posts on worship, multiple perspectives on one moment. HOW we worship matters to WHO we worship. Here's why...
READ This is Worship Leading. Part II
Faith | faith
This is the second of two posts on worship, multiple perspectives on one moment. HOW we worship matters to WHO we worship. Here's why...
READ Singing, Satan, Statues Oh My!
Faith | faith
With every song, show, and celebration the world broadcasts its depravity loud and clear. Roll out the red carpet, shine the trophies while you can. Rest assured this party ends on earth.
READ Spy Balloons, Bus Beatings, and Yes… the Body of Christ
Faith | faith
You've seen this, right? What do these two things have in common and what does it mean for The Body of Christ? Everything. And everything. Here, watch this...
READ If Paul Saw the Church in America… We’d Get a Letter
Uncategorized | faith
Saw this float around a while back. Let’s clarify a point. This is true indeed. However...
READ Kingdom Breadlines and the Panhandling Poor
Faith | faith
Simmer, simmer... this is not about poverty or the hungry. This is about Jehovah Jireh and His children... who sometimes live like orphans.
READ Be a Better Disciple Maker with These Three Words
Faith | faith
Want a fast, easy way to be a better apologist and disciple maker? These three words make all the difference..
READ Get Thee Transformed, People.
Faith | faith
God intended you do more than dangle in a crusty cocoon. New life awaits! Get thee transformed, people. Pronto!
READ The Healthy You, Healthy Family Sweepstakes!
Uncategorized
It's a new year and a new opportunity to become more healthy. This year, we've decided to help by giving away a healthy Grand Prize valued at $5,000! Enter to win here...
READ Alabaster Box… of Chicken Sandwiches
Faith | faith
We tend to think the stories of the Bible are A) just stories... and B) stories that happened once a long time ago, but never again. Nay, nay weary traveler. Here's a story for you...
READ The Test of Christianity… Should Probably Include Christ.
Faith | faith
Don't convolute a litmus test for what is Christianity with sentiment or kindness. A fruit of the Spirit, or from the Vine, is NOT THE VINE.
READ Leaves, Debris, and the Distance In-Between
Faith | faith
Close proximity to the vine does not a branch make you. In-ness, not nearness, Friend. Come see the difference.
READ The Abolition of Absolution
Faith | faith
We are the generation dictators desired, without values enough to resist, without history enough to defend, without truth enough to reason... without conscience.
READ Yay, Insufficiency!
Faith | faith
Welcome, fools and failures! God knows our potential and He called us anyway. We are exactly the wrong kinda stuff He desires. And there's more good news...
READ Faith, Fire… and Football?
Faith | faith
Damar Hamlin, stopped and starting hearts... miracles on football fields should look like harvests in spiritual fields. What will we do with this miracle?
READ We wish you a Merry Christmas… and a “Mary” New Year!
Faith | faith
Given enough time and tinsel, anyone can “make merry.” But if making “Mary” is our goal for the new year, we may have some work to do.
READ For Crying Out Loud… Smile and Say, “Cheese!”
Faith | faith
Friend. Take the picture. Mark the occasion even when the occasion is grief, loss, or loneliness. Ask someone to take a picture of you.
READ HSL Better Than Stuff Series: Give the Gift of Fidelity
Faith | faith
What if I told you compromise or a convenient lack of conviction may go further to secure our earthly interests, but the inconsistency it requires damages the Gospel?
READ What Good Ideas We Are Having!
Uncategorized
Grieve and repent. There’s not a way to reframe this narrative to make it less foolish or wicked.
READ HSL Better Than Stuff Series: Give the Gift of Sabbath Rest
Faith | faith
Spiritual disciplines aren’t just for grown-ups. You want wise and mature adult Believers? Start training Believers to be wise and mature when they are children.
READ Christmas Mortgage Miracle Sweepstakes!
Uncategorized
Enter to win mortgage payments for all of 2023! You can enter once per day and earn bonus entries!
READ Star of Wonder
Faith | faith
The wise men weren't the only ones to see the star. They were just the ones WILLING TO FOLLOW IT.
READ HSL Better Than Stuff Series: Give the Gift of Crazy-Good Skills
Faith | faith
Having trouble coming up with gift ideas for your family? Could it be because they don’t truly need anything... or because the stuff they need CAN'T BE BOUGHT?
READ HSL Better Than Stuff Series: Give the Gift of High Expectations
Faith | faith
You can turn this thing around starting today! And you can start with high expectations, lofty goals, and faith that gives a confidence the world can't take away.
READ HSL Better Than Stuff Series: Give the Gift of Encouragement
Faith | faith
This is the season of grand loving gestures and unreciprocated generosity!! (Just ask Jesus.)
READ Let Every Heart Prepare HIM Room
Uncategorized | faith
What is the first message of the manger?? HE will occupy as much room as you give Him.
READ Why Abortion Isn’t Driving Voters to the Polls… (or Pools)
Conservative | conservative
Grab the vapors and recline if you need to but do let it wash over you, we have actually identified the cause of pregnancy.
READ Bless the Patriarchy
Faith | faith
The idea that patriarchy is inherently bad and must be leveled is a lie from the enemy, intended to destabilize society, deconstruct the family and diminish men.
READ Mirror, Mirror On the Wall… Libs of TikTok is Exposing All
Conservative | conservative
No entrapment or coercion, just curating the liberal lunacy of the left. Brilliant. Now it's still basically the same but with security and attorneys.
READ The HSL Guide to Halloween II
Faith | faith
You, Believer, can equip others with hope and courage in the form of answers, truth, and scripts that can encourage today and empower tomorrow, whatever battle tomorrow brings.
READ Your Friendly Neighborhood Extremist
Conservative | conservative
As for the elephants in the room? There is simply no need for moderate Republicans anymore. There is no such thing as a moderate Democrat to reach across the aisle towards.
READ The HSL Guide to Halloween: No Fear Here
Faith | faith
What to do with Halloween? Does your house go big or go dark? I'm not a fan of Halloween but something scares me even more. Missed opportunities while my kids are still at home.
READ The Abolition of Absolution
Conservative | conservative
We are the generation dictators desired, without values enough to resist, without history enough to defend, without truth enough to reason... without conscience.
READ True Love Waits… for Socialism and Climate Reform
Uncategorized
Either He controls wind, wave... and market--or He doesn't. Is Almighty God of the Bible, Lessmighty or just Alrighty God of today?
READ Crooks, Crowns, and the Libbish Empire
Conservative | conservative
This week was peak royal… self-unaware, self-absorbed, a smidge snobby... and that’s stateside royals, not even the ones with actual crowns across the pond.
READ Socialism is Great… on Paper!
Conservative | conservative
Socialism would be outstanding in a society free of greed, sloth or sin. In other words, a society of plants. But certainly not sinful man
READ Mums the Word on Dignity and Reverance
Conservative | conservative
Say what you want about the Queen--but honor, tradition, dignity, and majesty are good and noble things for society.
READ Christ, Cactus, and College Football
Faith | faith
The rest of the world may be unconcerned but there is a prickly situation in Texas, between TCU and Texas Tech. Christ, Cactus, and College Football. Trust me.
READ Your Majesty
Faith | faith
Respect the reverence, the pomp, and pageantry. Then remember--your King, though once buried, lives again.
READ Little Demon. Big Problem.
Faith | faith
You can read exhaustive thoughts on Disney's show Little Demon, but not here. This will just take a minute anyhow.
READ Rise, Shine, and Give God the Glory, Glory!
Faith | faith
For too long we’ve let a broken world determine what it is to be blessed, the Lord sees it much differently.
READ Forgiving a Debt Doesn’t Make You Jesus
Conservative | conservative
If I had fireworks, I’d light em! Two of my favorite things happening right now… when people who reject my God, His Word, His Son, His Spirit and His authority— try to co-opt that which they routinely mock, to give validity and credibility to sophomoric ideas… and in some way pressure Christians, who they routinely…
READ The Danger of Social Justice
Faith | faith
Same dust, same ashes. Same shed blood covers us, same blood spills out of us. And those are the only colors that should concern us. We start in darkness, we have been offered ruby red redemption and we will end, in either eternal darkness or light. We should at least consider how the enemy has…
READ That’s Racist: Public Schools to Fire White Teachers First
Conservative | conservative
Seriously. This is actual racism and not the kind that is embedded or systemic, unintentional or unfelt. This is not the kind that you are guilty of by virtue of existence or skin color. This is not even the kind that wasn’t last year but is this year… because triggers or terms are changing daily,…
READ There’s a Reason Everyone Loved Top Gun 2
Faith | conservative
There’s a reason everyone loves Top Gun Maverick… aside from the nostalgia for us “seasoned” folks, aside from the G’s, Mach 10, and dogfight (hellooo football) scene… it will make hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars for this reason: It was JUST entertainment. It didn’t make you feel like garbage about your country, your…
READ The Guide, The Blind, and You.
Faith | faith
I just can’t take my eyes off of this. It’s the best illustration I’ve ever seen— of discipleship. Paralympian David Brown and Jerome Avery. Google them. Watch all the videos. Read all the articles. That’s what this thing we are doing is. A guided run. Two people willingly bound together, a blind and a…
READ Take It On the Road
Faith | faith
Originally published: Nov 2020 I know everyone wants to talk about the gas, politics, etc. But I just don’t. I don’t have the energy for it. There are, however, several conversations I have been wanting to have over the last few days, but they didn’t seem appropriate or I didn’t want them to get lost…
READ His Character Trumps Your Coping
Faith | faith
Goood Morrrrrning!!! Serving up consistent theology for breakfast. I know, right?! Delish. It almost takes the sadness of intermittent fasting and having to drink black coffee like a trucker away. Almost. Let’s look at good theology. You’re saved right? You’ve placed your faith in Jesus, turned from sin and are walking in obedience, right? Eternity…
READ Not As Righteous As You Think
Salem | church, conservative, either/or, politics
I have a feeling it’s gonna be that kinda year… Again. This may be more salt than your Sunday is ready for. You will likely hate everything I’m about to say. The most shocking thing to me is not that there is division or corruption in the nation or in politics. The most shocking thing…
READ Ain’t Identity Politics Grand?
Conservative | conservative
My favorite thing is when we assign good intentions, moral authority, and integrity based on gender… alone. Especially, when we’ve been told gender is just an imagined, social construct anyway. We live in a time of actual misandry, contempt and prejudice against men, though you wouldn’t know it with everyone screaming “Misogynist!” at every “peeing…
READ Know Your Stuff.
Faith | faith
***This is a perspective post, not a political post. This is Kayleigh McEnany’s binder for daily briefings. And, really that should be understood to be this is the culled down, portable version that represents countless volumes of information and hours of preparation… for every single day. So… being prepared to give an answer for…
READ I’m a trained Marxist. -BLM
Conservative | conservative
When someone says “We are trained Marxists.” You need to sit up and take notice. Do you know what that means?? Pointing out self-avowed Marxism isn’t to detract from the reality of racism. It’s not a distraction. It’s not a strategy to blame shift or avoid justice. It IS to sound the alarm, that…
READ 7 Habits of Highly Humble People
Uncategorized
What if the habits you are trying to maintain are the exact ones He intends to change? If the Lord intended us to go on as we were… He would allow us to go on as we were. But, oh no sir! He obviously intends we be thoroughly changed. Zero areas have been left in…
READ The Letting Go
Faith | faith
If the Lord wills…. These words said by some of the bravest, closest followers of Christ. Paul and James…men so confident in what they saw and KNEW, that they would leave lives they knew for deaths they didn’t. Men of conviction and clarity. These are the men who ultimately and humbly acknowledged… only the Lord…
READ The Finisher
Faith | faith
This is my girl, Much Afraid. You can see it on her precious face. Scared to the point of tears. That instant where your flesh begs to be bowed to, in relief or rescue. This is that. As, her Mama… I could tell she wanted to bolt and not in the same direction as the…
READ The God of the Bible
Faith | faith
Did you wonder if the God of the Bible could still captivate, activate and change the whole world at once? You should not be wondering now. Do you think COVID was outside of His will or awareness? Ask Pharaoh. Ask kings and presidents how in charge they felt when The Ruler chose to reign…
READ Don’t Say Nothing About Nothing
Uncategorized
You can’t say anything… you’re not from here. You can’t say anything… you’re a man. You can’t say anything… you’re a woman. You can’t say anything… you’re the wrong color. You can’t say anything… you’re no one. You can’t say anything… you’re someone. You can’t say anything… you are privileged. You can’t say anything… you’re…
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