grateful for Christ

Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: “The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat.  So you must obey them and do everything they tell you.  But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.  They tie up heavy loads and put [...]

Just a brief update: God is doing so many things (good things, but things that need a lot of prayer and careful working out) right now that I can hardly breathe, let alone catch a thought long enough to write about it.  It’s all I can do to have time to spend with Him and [...]

Edit: I have been praying about this one for a few days now. There is something that feels like this is not the right place/audience/time for this message. That’s my theory so far, anyway. Maybe it isn’t even how God wanted it presented. Sometimes He gives me the direct words [...]

Encouragement is a very, very good thing.  It can feed a person and give them the ability to keep going when all seems lost, but it must be done in the right spirit, with full sincerity; otherwise, it will fall to the ground, empty and deflated.  The wounded heart can sense the difference between genuine [...]

Something I keep running into lately has been people taking everything in the world at face value except Christ and the life He wants to live in us.  The more I look around, the more I realize that Christians, by and large, are gullible people who get taken in by the same things that fool [...]

May God guide me as I write, that He may be honored in truth.
On Monday I started my new temp job at a office in downtown Portland, Oregon.  If you don’t live in the area, Portland has a thriving homeless population, the citizens of which run the gamut from genuinely down-on-their-luck to fresh-out-of-prison to mentally [...]