The Camel's Hump
In the darkness, with the final battle begun
Sweating drops of blood, He prayed and didn’t run
“Take this cup from me,” was His cry
As He fervently prayed, with throat raw and mouth dry
Three times He prayed for the cup to pass
Three times He was met with silence with [...]
Die Young is by Michael and Hayley DiMarco and published by Crossway*. Haley is the best-selling author of over 30 books, including God Girl, Mean Girls, and Die Young. She and her husband, run Hungry Planet, a company focused on producing books [...]
Passion 2012 kicked off yesterday. If you are unfamiliar with the Passion movement, it is a movement of university-aged students united for the fame and name of Jesus. Isaiah 26:8 is the foundational verse of this movement. It states:
In the path of your judgments,
Christopher Hitchens is dead. And while this reality comes to us as no surprise (he was battling esophageal cancer), this does not assuage the sadness of the moment. One who raged against God, who denied His very existence, has now stood before Him. After drawing his last breaths and [...]
A while back, I renounced my fandom. I had grown tired of all that being a fan in today’s context entailed. No longer could one casually follow a hometown team. A true fan, a real fan, is one who hates all those who pose a threat to their team. [...]
The idea that Joe Paterno would be forced out of Penn State on moral grounds defies belief.
More than six decades of achievement, an entire adult life committed to the advancement of the core mission of his university, could not withstand the sin of omission committed by Paterno in the Jerry [...]
There was something I initially wrote in my post about Steve Jobs that I ended up removing. It went something like this:
I hope that one day in the new heavens and new earth, I can take a long walk with Steve [...]
Last night I was coloring (in the lines) with the kids I was watching at church. My wife walked in with her iPhone in hand and said, “Why didn’t you tell me Steve Jobs died?” I had not told her because I did not know. I was unaware that the man who [...]
This poem came out of two things. The routine of my prayers in the morning and a sermon series that my pastor and friend, David Prince, just finished this past week. It was called the “10 Words of Freedom” and was an expository [...]
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For those of you who didn’t know, my wife and I are expecting our first child. It’s an exciting time in our lives. We have prayed for a child for a long time now and God answered our prayer a few days before Christmas. Finding out that we were [...]