Gospel Re-Formed

"Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." 1 Cor 13:4-7 (NASB) The entirety of 1 Corinthians is about love, using several angles to fully define what Christian love is supposed to look like. It not only defines attributes of love (what love looks like) but even expresses the importance of love over other gifts that are given to Christians, even our speech. Take 1 Cor 13:1 (NASB): “If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.” No matter what you say, whether it is true, from God, or neither, without love the information becomes nothing but noise. Not only that but like a noisy gong, painful to hear, a...

"The real danger is not atheism, but that we ask God to coexist comfortably with the idols of our heart." - Tim Keller (on Twitter) When I was a teenager, I had a dream that I was replaced by a robot. I was playing soccer with my friends and got seriously hurt, ending up in the hospital with my heart hanging off of one of those IV poles. So I was replaced. My friends came to see me after a game with the new "me", gloating about how great he was. They were so close to him that I thought that I was no longer needed, so I cut the lines. It was a horrible dream, especially for a teenager. Dreams can be good or bad. Dreams can expose fears, like being alone or replaced by a robot. It can reveal our desires for the future, like a career, or something materialistic such as a new house or sports car. It can spark a journey for positive change in society. Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream for all people to be treated with equality, a dream that still needs to be realized to...