On Receiving Advice

Recently, I was speaking to a good friend of mine about a situation that is not important to my point today. She gave me some advice, and it was not exactly what I wanted to hear.

How to Love Those Who Leave

In this post, I will specifically be addressing how to love people who leave the Christian faith, though it may have wider implications.

Over at Boundless, Matt Anderson has a post entitled “Loving Those Who Leave.” I found the piece to be very powerful, and one that we may end up facing more often in our lives than we might expect. Going to a Christian college that emphasizes a lot of really great standards (not speaking here about the contract, for the record), I never really expected to face a lot of people simply running away from the faith. As Matt pointed out, this is not just a one day decision, but rather the culmination of experiences. How can the experience of living in community with other Christians, studying the Bible (enough for a minor) and attending regular chapel result in someone leaving the faith?

Repost: “Steering and Direction: Jesus Take the Wheel”

This post is originally from a group blog which I write for which many of you should be familiar with, Push of Pikes. You can find the original here.

You’ve probably all heard that song from back in 2005. While some found it to be an encouraging reminder to trust in Jesus with everything in their lives, many people simply found the concept a bit too…well, cheesy. I tend to fall in the latter camp, in spite of my own views of Divine Sovereignty.

Time to Take a Break

I don’t usually take time off from blogging. I took a week or two off around Christmas last December, and I missed a Poetry Thursday post during Thanksgiving week. With the finals making an appearance next week and papers and such this week, I will be taking the next two weeks off of blogging, at least here. I may still write for Push of Pikes, if I have time. If someone makes a Poetry Thursday submission, I’ll still post that, but I will not be doing any original writing for the next two weeks.

See you all soon.

Christ Abide.

Simple Joys

I’m currently gearing up to write on Rob Bell’s book, Love Wins, so you can expect that to show up over at Push of Pikes on Friday (if all goes according to plan, that is).