In case you missed it, Playboy recently chose to stop running fully nude women in their magazines. I don’t know the full details of the decision, but I’ve seen the headlines and discussed the matter with friends. I haven’t done what most would call research because alcoholics shouldn’t go to bars and I shouldn’t research Playboy. This shift from nudity to just promiscuity is not a good sign; it’s a negative indicator of our culture’s health. While this seems like…
We live in a dark world. Darkness is on the move in the world at large, in the people around us, and in our own hearts. Christians are dying abroad and at home while sin wages a constant war on our relationships. All the while, I have a daily wrestling match with the false assumptions that I deserve certain luxuries or that I understand things better than other people or even God. It’s overwhelming when all of this comes together…
It started with a couple of words. I still remember siting in my kitchen and talking with one of my former roommates. We were discussing something pretty ordinary when he said two words which struck me deeply. He mentioned that a friend gave someone ‘unsolicited advice’. While the words weren’t directed at me, it felt like a weight hit me right in the heart. In that moment, I realized most of my previous advice to people had come out of…