April 16, 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 Decade's Burden On June 19, 2011, my brother Isaac and I scrambled around a small pond in order to secure a view across it for the moment a 22-year-old kid named Rory McIlroy sealed his first win in a major golf tournament. He did it in dominant and convincing fashion, winning by eight strokes. McIlroy would win three more major tournaments over...
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April 9, 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 Your First Love What—or who—is your first love? It is a question that was jogged in my mind recently as I joined my friend Carmen LaBerge on her daily radio show. Carmen made reference to the late great Keith Green’s song, Oh Lord, You’re Beautiful, which is now nearly 50 years old (I personally find that almost impossible to believe). There is a...
17 days ago • 6 min read
April 2, 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 Anchored to an Everlasting Love “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness” (Jer. 31:3). It is a simple truth you almost need to forget and then return to anew to fully grasp its magnitude: The all-powerful God of the universe loves you passionately and unceasingly! Wow! Let’s reset the table here a bit and...
24 days ago • 7 min read
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...
about 1 month 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...
about 1 month 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...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
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....
about 2 months 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 2 months 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...
2 months ago • 7 min read