pratical theology

getting smacked around…

Our AIA team here is reading, You Can Change, by Tim Chester and it has been smacking me around over the last few weeks of reading it. Here is what smacking me around today: Sin is fundamentally an orientation towards self. Many of us suffer from self-absorption....

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humility and pride.

pride. Do you have it? I'll be honest, apart from Christ, I am a prideful jerk. I know it and it tears me up. I find myself daily wrestling with myself and the deep, selfish pride that I know I'm capable of. I'm thankful I wrestle with it though, because if I ever get...

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learning how to love the city

It’s no secret, when you read the Bible that God has a heart for cities. (click here to read Timothy Keller’s A Biblical Theology of the City on theresurgence.com.) Time and time again, you have to wrestle with the fact that God has a heart for cities. Today, as I was...

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