The Sovereignty of God: Something deeper than the unfathomable depths of the places you've never thought of. You know, sometimes you just have to give up. Right now I feel like I have to give up on this subject. Not because it's hopeless, but because it's too big. I could go on to talk about how God created the ocean, Grand Canyon, or a daffodil. And you might say, "Oh, that's nice," not quite impressed that it is more exciting than watching llamas at the zoo. It always seems that we sell God short. Short, that is, to each other, the people at work, at home, or the people that we see on Sunday mornings when [...]

I'm not a morning person. I really want to be a morning person someday. It's in the mornings where I recollect my thoughts and, hopefully, my sanity; I try to remember the goings ons of the 24 hours before, and with that, also the deluge of failures and things that I wish I did different. I'm sort of a living illustration of the Fall of Mankind. In the morning I'm as fallen as a human can be, and throughout the day God (in His grace) redeems my day (and me). Mornings were created to be beautiful, but my blaring alarm clock pisses me off. And then alarm clock #2 goes off. And then alarm clock #3 [...]