March 26, 2025 Viewing all things through the lens of the True and the beautiful! Subscribe for FREE! Pay if you want--or don't! Podcast The True Out of the Storm “Brace yourself like a man.” It is a stern directive that sounds as though it is coming from a commanding officer or an overbearing father. In reality, it is the voice of the loving and compassionate God in Job 40:7. My wife, Brooke, shared from this passage as she reflected on her mom’s recent passing. Job, a man of God, has been...
8 days ago • 7 min read
March 19, 2025 Viewing all things through the lens of the True and the beautiful! Subscribe for FREE! Pay if you want--or don't! Podcast The True Strength and Honor It is a serious movie scene that spawned countless humorous Internet memes and is now an inside parenting joke between my wife, Brooke, and me. The scene from the 2000 blockbuster Gladiator depicts two Roman warriors about to enter a battle that will very likely end in their deaths. The two briefly embrace and remind each other...
15 days ago • 6 min read
March 12, 2025 Viewing all things through the lens of the True and the beautiful! Subscribe for FREE! Pay if you want--or don't! Podcast The True Handiwork for Good Works You are God’s handiwork. You are also the way in which God actively works in your tangible world (Eph. 2:10). I have a fascination—and even maybe a holy obsession—with the biblical concepts of being both fashioned by God and fashioned for God’s good works. Would you take a moment to inform our brief contemplation of these...
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March 5, 2025 Viewing all things through the lens of the True and the beautiful! Subscribe for FREE! Pay if you want--or don't! Podcast The True On That Day On that day. Those three words denote a dramatic change in perspective and destiny. They provide a window into why and how you should have hope about your future. Those words appear in Zephaniah 3:16, just a verse before the familiar words telling of a God who takes “great delight in you” and “rejoice[s] over you with singing” (Zeph....
29 days ago • 6 min read
February 26, 2025 Viewing all things through the lens of the True and the beautiful! Subscribe for FREE! Pay if you want--or don't! Podcast The True Perfectly Imperfect “But you have given us one another in all shapes and sizes. We do not fit together all that well, but we pray the puzzles of our lives may please you and entertain you, so that in the end we add up to be your kingdom.” – Stanley Hauerwas We are an unusual lot, we humans. Perhaps even more to the point, we are an unusual lot,...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
February 19, 2025 Viewing all things through the lens of the True and the beautiful! Subscribe for FREE! Pay if you want--or don't! Podcast The True A Satisfied Life It reads like a Hollywood thriller: Terror at night . . . armies attacking . . . a stalking enemy . . . plagues . . . pestilence . . . wild animals . . . Those are all descriptors found in Psalm 91 of the dangers you and I face in this world. It paints a pretty bleak picture! In fact, if reading merely from the perspective of...
about 1 month ago • 7 min read
February 12, 2025 Viewing all things through the lens of the True and the beautiful! Subscribe for FREE! Pay if you want--or don't! Podcast The True A Thin Line Less than two hours after swimming the best race of her life, she was in tears of disappointment. You can likely relate. Perhaps it is because of having competed in athletics, or maybe due to something that occurred in your professional career, or possibly even a personal ambition or goal. Regardless of the context, you almost...
about 2 months ago • 7 min read
February 5, 2025 Viewing all things through the lens of the True and the beautiful! Subscribe for FREE! Pay if you want--or don't! Podcast The True Blockbuster Trade “Maybe it’s an April Fools’ Day joke in February.” That was my first though when I saw the news. But no, it wasn’t April Fools’ Day, and it wasn’t a joke. One of the most significant trades in the history of the National Basketball Association (NBA) had been completed, the centerpiece of which sent superstar Luka Doncic from the...
about 2 months ago • 7 min read
January 29, 2025 Viewing all things through the lens of the True and the beautiful! Subscribe for FREE! Pay if you want--or don't! Podcast The True Playing for Keeps Friend, this life isn’t for the faint of heart. You were born on a battlefield, and the enemy is playing for keeps. It is no use pulling punches: He aims to steal from you, kill you, and destroy you (Jn. 10:10a). It is not enough for him to take what the Father has promised you, and it is even not enough to take your physical...
2 months ago • 7 min read