Love Your Neighbor

The following is an excerpt from an email from one of my small group girls, from Jerry Bridges The Gospel for Real Life {which I am currently reading now}.
I pretty much fail at this. At least I know in what specific ways and how to improve.
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and [...]

Better Men of God…

You want to be more passionate like a preacher
more inspiring like a teacher
you want to be better men of God
more valiant like a soldier
more diligent like our elders
you want to be better men of God…
and I am praying that you will be.
but if its any consolation, you make US want to love God more…and you [...]

little flurries

Sorry for those who thought I was writing about something warm and fuzzy but “little flurries” was the analogy that came to mind when I thought about the little but numerous trials that have flown into my face lately.
Things that have been exposed in the midst of these “flurries”:
*vanity
*idolatry
*selfishness
*impatience
*lack in self-control
*prayer that is self-centered
*comparing myself [...]

Reflections from Senior Year

In that house on the top of the hill, there lays a box of the last of my UCI memories. This is the box that didn’t get to stay with me after i made the trek down to what is now my home in SD. While visiting my parents I came across it and found [...]

Where I’m At

This past few months I’ve been hopping in and of “Spiritual Disciplines of the Church” by Donald Whitney. First recommended by Pastor John when I was preparing for the Czech trip in ‘07, I got it after a book shopping spree (well, it felt like that when I walked out of Evangelical with 4 books) [...]

Pure in heart

Watch over your heart with all diligence,
For from it flow the springs of life.
—
Proverbs 4:23