20

Today, I'm 20 years old. It's so strange -- this moment in this world in this era. I was born in 2003, so 2023 means I'm 20. If I was born a year earlier or later, it wouldn't be so. When I was young, I often said, "I've waited my whole life to be ten,…

good deed

This week's post is more of a question than an answer. Reading through Revelations, it speaks of the Bride's dress as "fine linen, bright and pure--for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints." (Rev. 19:8). And that made me wonder: what is a righteous deed? James speaks of it, too. And throughout Revelation,…

saved

God's love can save me and you and all of us. Love matters most. Sometimes faithlessness is a choice. I wrote these words in August after a bout with depression. It's interesting, how some problems don't die but appear again and again, in different forms. Depression feels like a pinhole of light shuts, trapping you…

patience

my word of 2022 is this: patience. maybe you're internally groaning. don't pray for patience, or else God will give you practice! but that's not the patience I want. I don't want to only learn patience, but I want to enjoy and appreciate patience. many of us dread it: the word patience. but I want…

who will you die for?

Revelation helps us remember that everyone dies. The question is, for whom will you die? Reading Revelation is like watching a back and forth -- a war between two armies. In the first half, creatures are unleashed on nonbelievers: "They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months. And…