Playing with fire
To take the analogy of touching a red-hot stove, it’s not as if it only burns you four out of five times, but maybe you’ll get lucky.
Self indulgence is self harm
We simultaneously give too much credit to ourselves in what we can control through self-help and habit modification, and don’t give ourselves enough credit as agents of worship and desire as opposed to victims in need of neurological re-wiring and healing from trauma.
Resolve to make resolutions
Abstaining from resolutions is itself a plan. It’s a plan for status quo, which, given the nature of our world, is an unrealistic one.
Your life is like the dawn
Even if clouds and rain cover your life, and you can’t see the sun, it’s there, and it’s only rising higher, never lower.
A right and wrong way to Keep Christ in Christmas
“Does the Lord have as great a delight in stars of Bethlethem and posting Christmas eve photos as He does in obeying the voice of the Lord?”