Between the Trees

A girl I was friends with in high school recently sent around some questions she had about peoples’ experiences with high school youth ministry. I rarely pay attention to such things, but something prompted me to read and respond to it. It was an interesting chance for me to reflect on my years growing up [...]

On a less personal note, here’s something I’ve been pondering. Through a plethora of means, I have had resurrected for me a topic of discussion which I’ve pondered off and on for years, that of Christian non-violence and “pacifism.”
It seems to me that the problem with this discussion is how completely unwilling people are to [...]

“Give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, ‘Who is the LORD ?’ Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.”
-Proverbs 30:8b-9
As I have been processing through a number of things and [...]

One of the buzzwords in Christian culture today is “world-view,” in fact, I’m seeing that word in lots of places, and I can see why. It’s a very nice simple way of describing a person’s life philosophy. It’s also free of the philosophic and religious jargon that our generation finds so unappealing due to it’s [...]

This is a blog that has been several-weeks in the making, although now may or may not be the best time to write it since I’m feeling wonderful now as I’ll be leaving later today for the annual L’Abri conference in Rochester, MN. (For those of you unfamiliar with L’Abri, I’ll write about it sometime, [...]

So I just deleted my last post; if you didn’t read it, it was about the exorbitant amounts of money a number of Christian leaders make and a call to live humbly and not bring disgrace to the name of Christ.
Upon reflection, I felt it was unconstructive and, quite frankly, sinful. It was accurate, the [...]

Recently, I’ve been struck by how often Christ is taken for granted in my prayer life. Since my theology of prayer is that we pray to the Father, through the Son, at the prompting of the Holy Spirit, I tend to spend my time focused on the father who my intercessions are presented to and [...]