GOSPEL :: FAMILY :: MISSION
When you think about the words that you use to describe yourself, what words come to mind? Recently I woke up to a message on my phone from a friend in Australia who referred to me as: Warrior Son of the Most-High God, Legend and Champion of Champions. I’m not going to lie, the words he used to describe me were shocking and I honestly felt really uncomfortable.
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What is broken in you that you long to have fixed? Here we are, on the backside of the Christmas holiday. For most of us, the family get-togethers have happened or are still in the process of happening. The meals have been had. The gifts have been given and received. The decorations are still up but will soon be taken down and put away as we prepare for the long cold winter ahead of us.
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The Christmas season is a season that is typically full of joy and excitement. From an early age we are trained to look forward to Christmas with all of its cultural trappings. Family get togethers, big extravagant meals, the excitement of gift giving and receiving, holiday movies on the Hallmark channel, the beauty of Christmas lights, Christmas concerts, parades, company Christmas parties; this time of year, really is just like one gigantic nationwide festival.
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The Christmas season is upon us. It is one of the most beautiful and joy-filled times of the year with all of the snow, Christmas lights, family get togethers, food and gift giving. But this year is different.
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Saying goodbye is never easy to do. Whether you’re saying goodbye to someone after spending a few days together or saying goodbye to someone who is being called to a different mission field after years of laboring in the gospel together or saying goodbye to your college age children or saying goodbye to your dying relative; saying goodbye is never easy.
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I’ve often said that a person’s reputation is the story of their character. The outward behavior of a person’s life says a lot about the inner workings of what has shaped a person’s heart and mind.
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Contentment and confidence are rare commodities these days. Contentment can oftentimes be nothing more than passivity dressed up in the expensive clothing of religious language and the cheap lipstick of cultural philosophy. Confidence on the other hand, can oftentimes be nothing more than reckless hype and emotional response.
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Never in my lifetime have I experienced the polarization, division, anger, mischaracterization, slander and spirit of all-out war quite like I have in 2020.
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When I first began studying this text, last week, I had to chuckle a little. I chuckled a little because I could feel the unique provision of the Lord…
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If you know me well then you know that I am wired to see life like a war; like life is constantly coming at me or like life is a mountain to be taken during wartime.
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