It’s all too easy to turn the fight of faith into sanctification-by-checklist. Take care of a few bad habits, develop a couple good ones, and you’re set. But a moral checklist doesn’t take into consideration the idols of the hearts. It may not even have the gospel as part of the equation. And inevitably, checklist spirituality is highly selective. So you end up feeling successful at sanctification because you stayed away from drugs, lost weight, served at the soup kitchen, and renounced Styrofoam. But you’ve ignored gentleness, humility, joy, and sexual purity.

Walking in the light means we pursue obedience and are honest about our remaining darkness.

We may have the best of intentions in trying to discern God's will, but we should really stop putting ourselves through the misery of overspiritualizing every decision. Our misdirected piety makes following God more mysterious than it was meant to be

Obsessing over the future is not how God wants us to live, because showing us the future is not God's way.

The seed of God's Word won't grow to fruitfulness without pruning for rest, quiet, and calm

Blue Devils may have won today. Devil gonna lose tomorrow.

As the culture war rages on, Lord give us wisdom to see the difference between defending our rights and protesting our slights.