Aaron Lord

Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, p. 364: Do not look at someone else and say—Well, if he can have those views and prosper, why cannot I? You have to walk in the light of the vision that has been given to you and not compare yourself with others or judge them, that is

I’m studying a lot about the biblical Jacob and the practice of wrestling with God. But lately there’s a big question I’m struggling with, and that is knowing when to go with the flow and trust that God in charge, and when to intervene because it depends on you. Steve Stockman, in his book Walk

Okay, so he wasn’t an angel. And it’s a good thing, too, because this is part of what he wrote: “The life we live is not our own[,] for who’s to say that we’ll live to see tomorrow?” While it may be theologically correct, there’s something a little foreboding about it when you’re getting on

Someone has suggested that I should expect someone to look through my stuff if I set it down in a bookstore. I disagree. If it were for sale, my Bible would be in a little Bible box like all the others. My notebook wouldn’t be the only notebook in the store, they wouldn’t both have

Tonight after the service I went into the church bookstore to look something up. Pastor Sam was talking about Colossians 1, where Paul says he’s trying to “fill up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ.” I remembered from John Piper’s Desiring God that there’s a parallel verse in Philippians 2:30 where it talks

The conductor of the Crystal Cathedral’s unionized house orchestra killed himself at the church after a 9-hour standoff. (In the interest of full disclosure I have to mention that my grandparents go to the Crystal Cathedral, a fact which has embarrassed me for a long time.) The standoff began less than two hours before the