Posted in General on May 31st, 2011
Recently I had the privilege of hearing some of the best advice on leadership, coming from someone who has made a noticeable impact on my life over the last year and a half. This was a question and answer time between Rick Holland and a group of 50 of us young men (college age and recently [...]
Posted in General on May 30th, 2011
“Oh, you two just got lucky!” … I know it’s a well-meaning saying, but it has got to be one of the most naive things I’ve heard people tell me about my happy marriage. Yes, I’m incredibly blessed by God, and yes, my lovely wife is worth far more than I could ever deserve, but there’s something else [...]
Posted in General on Apr 14th, 2011
Amazon is currently running a promotion: Get any 2 audiobooks for free when you sign up for a 30-day trial of Audible.com. Use the service or cancel later to avoid any fees. Here are the two I picked: R.C. Sproul: The Consequences of Ideas: Understanding the Concepts that Shaped Our World A.W. Tozer: God’s Pursuit of Man: [...]
Posted in General on Feb 17th, 2011
“God does not search around to find you a mate that’s compatible. More than likely he’s going to search around and find you a mate that’s totally incompatible with you. Why? He’s going to give you a mate that’s strong in all the areas where they must be strong that you not be tempted beyond [...]
Posted in General on Jan 10th, 2011
A year ago I moved into my first home, after plenty of planning, preparing, praying, and a messy escrow process. Months later once my fiancé became my wife, she moved in, giving it that desperately needed woman’s touch. Looking back on the last year of God’s faithfulness to Karen and I, we’ve been able to use [...]
Posted in General on Jul 21st, 2010
“All those expressions of unworthiness which Christian practice puts into the believer’s mouth seem to the outer world like the degraded and insincere grovellings of a sycophant before a tyrant, or at best a façon de parler like the self-depreciation of a Chinese gentleman when he calls himself “this course and illiterate person”. In reality, however, [...]
Posted in General on Jul 8th, 2010
Today marks the 269th anniversary of Jonathan Edwards preaching his most famous sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” in Enfield, CT. I’m reading through it after pastor Rick Holland’s wife Kim posted a tweet mentioning it. Though I won’t try to summarize it because I just can’t do it justice, the point Edwards [...]
Posted in General on Jun 5th, 2010
One week from now, I’m marrying the sweetest young lady I’ve ever known. It’s the second most important decision of my life, and after getting to know this amazing woman over the last few years, I must say that I have no doubts about whether or not I’m making the right choice. Here are a [...]
