Have you recently felt unsure of yourself, afraid, or anxious? I have. The circumstances of my personal life and the world around me have made me feel anxious and robbed me of my confidence. This combination of circumstances and feelings have at times made me feel like I’m grasping for straws or scrambling to keep up with everything. I desperately want answers to the questions which assail me and to assuage these difficult feelings. The answers still seem beyond my…
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…
In the first blog of this series, we talked about finding hope in the struggle against pornography and I want to continue that discussion in this blog. Most people who labor under the weight of porn hope to eventually experience victory and peace through gaining greater will power and discipline. From my experience, and talking with other guys in similar situations, probably one out of a thousand guys will be able to experience real freedom from porn independently. For most…
Similar to breathing air, we have to exhale our troubles to other Christians in order to inhale the powerful encouragement that God will pour through them. We also have to continue doing this to get the life that we want because, like air, it’s very easy to run out of hope and fall back into despair. God has delivered me from some nasty and painful sins that held me captive in the last couple of years, namely an addiction to…
I used to love Christmas but these days the season of Christmas and the thought of the coming day puts me in somber spirits. While I used to feel an exciting energy during the Christmas season, now December gives me an empty feeling kind of like the day after my football team lost. That’s a painful reversal and it really frustrated me until I realized that it gave me a really cool opportunity. The absence of the old energy that…
Do you ever wish that you could go back and talk to your past self? I know that I wish that I could go back in time and tell my past self that, no matter how hard things get, everything is going to be alright. Finding hope has been difficult during some of this past decade and I would love to give some to my past self. The really cool thing about God is that, no matter how difficult…