Practical Lessons for Intentionally Living Like Jesus
It’s easy to live an average life—one where we fail to make a difference. In my experience, the more I followed along with the pressures and patterns of daily life, the more I became a person who simply consumed his surroundings rather than contributed to them. I became a person of no impact. Living like […]
Hey guys! Check out my latest article on Guideposts Magazine’s website. It’s about discerning God’s will, which can be a tough subject to tackle. Personally, I discern God’s will by using a threefold technique of filtering the options through how they affect me personally (character growth, health, and understanding), how they affect my relationships, and […]
We can’t ignore it: Christians are being persecuted all around the world. Just the other week, ISIS released a video depicting masked men beheading 21 Egyptian Christians. American citizen, Kayla Mueller, was also murdered at the hands of ISIS. And here’s the thing: the persecution doesn’t begin and end with ISIS. It’s occurring in other […]
In his bestselling book, Love Does, Bob Goff tells the story of how he sat outside the dean’s office of his law school until the dean admitted him into the school. When I reflect on this story, I can’t help but think of how I would’ve given up sitting outside early on. In fact, I […]
Focus is a scarce resource now days. In a culture where our attention is constantly bombarded with technology and loud media, it can be difficult to direct our focus toward a task that matters. Yet what I’ve found in my own personal investigation of focus is that it’s not purely technology and media’s fault that […]
“Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much . . .” –Luke 16:10 Since college, I’ve been obsessed with making a difference in the world. Making a difference is what leading a meaningful life looks like, I told myself. Adding value to the world is what Jesus exemplified to His […]
If I’m honest with you, I’m weary of today’s model of success. Today’s success measures everything—from followers to likes. Today’s success values production more than anything else. Today’s success looks at the end-result while ignoring the process. As Christians, many of us know that the American Dream has lied to us. We know we can’t […]