“The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense.” – Proverbs 10:21 “You’re the cook.” I don’t remember much from this preaching conference, but that counsel from Kevin DeYoung stuck. He extended the analogy by asking us to think about our...
Folly Has a Strategic Plan to Get You
“The woman Folly is loud; she is seductive and knows nothing. She sits at the door of her house; she takes a seat on the highest places of the town.” - Proverbs 9:13-14 Junk mail has gotten savvier. There’s one method that gets me every time. It’s when I get a plain...
Where to Turn When Patriotism Seems to be Dying
Many people have moved to Idaho looking for, in essence, a patriotism retirement community. In their minds, if patriotism isn’t already dead in many parts of the country, it’s in its wheelchair, subsisting on a regimen of pills and injections. I remember in twelfth...
Where to Find Wisdom
“Does not wisdom call? Does not understanding raise her voice? On the heights beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand” – Proverbs 8:1-2 Cult leaders build followings by designing mazes of hidden knowledge. A hooded figure beckons you into a hidden house,...
Why You Can’t Let Yourself Feel Content
I’ve prayed about discontentment. I’ve confessed it. I keep a gratitude journal. But it was only this past year that I got a breakthrough as to the real problem. I don’t want to be content. I’m afraid of it. I look at successful people and I hear and recycle in...
The Sanction of Sin
“She seizes him and kisses him, and with bold face she says to him, “I had to offer sacrifices, and today I have paid my vows.” – Proverbs 7:13-14 Does a wolf in sheep’s clothing know what he’s doing? Of course. That’s what makes it so terrifying when you catch the...
You’ve Overcommitted–Now What?
“My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger, if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor;...
What Happens When You Stop Getting Bored?
You know what scares me most? Boredom. And I have a sneaking suspicion it's the same for you, especially if you’re under thirty. I worked with teenagers for over a decade and people would regularly ask: ‘What do you think is the biggest challenge for teenagers today?’...
Cheap Thrills
“Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress? For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he ponders all his paths.” – Proverb 5:20-21 Why would you have an affair? That might sound like a rhetorical...
Jesus is the Better Bitcoin
Like most millennial guys, I own some crypto (and like most, I bought at the wrong time). When I first discovered Bitcoin in 2019, the concept was magnetic. I felt (and still believe) this was one of those handful-a-century idea. You can tell the aspirations a...