September 2010
20 posts
Marathon
Sometimes I wonder: will all of this be noticed? Will all my time spent pouring over my message to teach on Wednesday night matter? Will this blog make a difference? Will all the effort I put into mentoring and loving those around me mean anything?
I think all of us have these moments. Will anyone care? Does anyone notice? It is completely normal to wonder. There is one thing that I hold...
Veiled
2 Corinthians 3:18 - “So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image.”
I know. At first glance that verse doesn’t make any sense, but when I fully understood what this verse was saying it greatly impacted my life. Let me explain.
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Redefine
What is life all about? What makes it worth living? There are so many different answers to this question, and I have answered it differently throughout my life.
My junior year in high school I would have answered that life is all about being happy. I wanted to make my friends like me so I could feel good. I wanted to get good grades so I could get in to a good college. I wanted to meet a...
Truth
John 14:6 - “Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
Lies. Deceit. Deception. I feel that our world is saturated in it all. Television tells us that we “need” every single product the commercials advertise. Magazines tell us that we “need” to look more like the people that fill their...
Honesty
Honesty… The saying goes that it is the best policy, but the truth is that honesty hurts sometimes. When we are going about our life and a friend gives us a wake up call on something we are doing wrong it can hurt.
A long time ago, I struggled with the idea of servant leadership. I thought leadership was translated by authority. Because of this, I was not a leader that inspired...
Encouragement
I hate those days. You know the ones I am talking about. The ones that seem like they just won’t get going. Everyone seems to say the wrong thing. Just a day of discouragement and disappointment. We all have them.
Just last night, I was having one of those days. I had no reason to be down, but I was. I got home because I just wanted to be alone, and walked into my room to listen to...
Passion
If at all possible, I am on the court every day shooting basketball, every Friday, I spend all that money to see a movie at the theater, when I am tired and worn out, I roll off of the couch to go to church and serve with some of the most amazing people in the world. Why do I do all these things so religiously? (well the church thing would make sense to be done “religiously” but you...
Masks
Who are you? Who do you show the world?
So many of us wear masks. We hide who we really are, what we really feel, what we really think, what we really believe. We do this so we can feel accepted. Comforted. Loved. But when we wear a mask so the world will love us, do they love me, or do they love the mask?
I remember hearing a story one time of a van being pulled over by a cop. The van...
Fish
One day, I was driving home from Chick Fil A (I love that place), and I pulled up next to a man on a scooter at the light. This guy had this look on his face like he was the hottest thing in town. His face had a smirk drawn across it and he was bobbing his head almost trying to make me agree with him that he was the man. I thought it was pretty amusing, but then it got better. On the other...
Restoration
When I was little, I went to a bible camp in the middle of nowhere Tennessee. We would camp, canoe, rock climb, build camp fires, all of it. (I know, TC is an outdoors type person? haha hardly) My least favorite part of the camp was always chapel. We would have to put our exciting activities on hold to wait and listen to an adult talk a long time about Jesus. I had accepted Christ at the age...
“What we do in life, echoes in eternity.”
– Maximus (Gladiator)
Mirror
It is never easy to take criticism. Especially when it’s right. Every day I go through life trying to do my best for God, but truth is we are all human, and I am more of a bonehead than most people.
Today, I was on the phone with my amazing mother. I was talking about all the things going on in my life, work, school, friends, and everything else. I was telling her about the things I am...
Confusion
There seems to always be questions in life. There seems to always be something confusing. From work to girls to the future to the right way to use chopsticks, it all can leave me scratching my head and wondering what is going on.
Sometimes I become frustrated. Why can’t I figure this out? Why can I not get this project at work to turn out the way I want? Why won’t she just...
Presence
Basketball. One the scale of important things in life it goes: God, basketball, oxygen, food, sleep, family, friends, bathroom, and so on. What I am trying to say is that I love me some basketball. Today, as every other day, I was out playing basketball with some of my boys and I saw 4 different people I knew. This tends to happen to me all the time. I feel like I have a magnet that draws...
Pain
Tonight, some one that God has placed in my life shared their heart with me. They showed me their struggle and the pain they were experiencing. It was heart breaking. When I see the pain in those I care about, I want to ask God why. It is a normal reaction to question and doubt God when there is agony in our lives, but there are 2 things we must remember when we encounter hard times:
1. God...
