Gospel Re-Formed

I was cleaning out one of our closets a few days ago and ran across my wedding rings. Not sure if anyone even knows this except for my wife, but it took a long time to pick a ring. I really wanted a ring to show my faith, so I found a couple of options that I bought online to try out. One was a big black one with a cross and Celtic decorations surrounding it, another was a bit smaller and with a simple swirling fish like design. They were both a bit thick, but I was so excited to wear a ring with a message. After a few months of wearing it I got annoyed with its size, especially in the IT world. Eventually I changed it out for a simple aluminum one that I bought in a market while Katherine and I were in Philadelphia. I still have both the rings hanging out in the closet, never sold them for some reason. As I looked at the rings sitting there I started to ponder. I wanted the ring to be a symbol of our marriage and to show that I was a Christian. I wanted people to know that my fa...

“Do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear.  Life is more than food, and the body more than clothes.  Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds!  Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?  Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?” - Luke 12:22-26 "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." - Yoda There is so much fear out there! Fear of the environment, health, rights, the economy, war, personal/family protection, identity, religion, and the list goes on. Fear can be a good thing. You certainly want to look both ways before crossing the street or not touch a poisonous snake. We can use fear to create change, gathering for a common cause against the thing that a group collectively fears. If there is a hu...

My last post was over 10 years ago! It is always good, and hard, to think back… and to do so honestly. The good and bad. The Good? God's transformative power has been evident in my life. His desire for me to dig into the Word and to grow in the truth, even if I had to go against this world. Another is my desire to spread the good news of the Gospel. I wanted people to be changed as I was changed, broken from the shackles of sin and death. In the past I called this being "Heaven Bound," as my last post was titled. For me this was the Gospel. I still had a lot to learn about what the Gospel really was. We should always grow towards truth, and sometimes that truth gets clearer over time, but we must be able to identify when it is not. Truth itself does not change, but sometimes truth can be remanufactured into something different. You can see this in historical based movies. When it says it is “based off of a true story,” does that mean the story is true? Not r...