Tag Archives: Writing

With Love and Grace

I’ve been thinking a lot about writing. Partially because it seems like it’s been ages since I’ve been able to really write, even though it’s only been a couple weeks. But also because I started thinking about how I write, and how I engage people on social media. Whether I’m too brash when I feel confident in something, or too arrogant when I see someone type something that makes me shake my head in disagreement. A friend of mine, Mike, is a young adult pastor and he said some things as we were going through 1 Peter 2 that made me stop and think about all this.
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Why I Write Hard Posts

One of my friends mentioned that I’d been addressing some difficult topics lately. Modesty is the only one that I’m aware is particularly difficult, or at least polarizing, but I thought it would be helpful to take a moment and explain why I do my best to work through these tough concepts and issues.
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The Plan

Ok, so to keep me from getting burned out (again) with all of the things I feel I need to be involved in, I’m going to have to structure writing a bit differently. Namely, writing less. Or at least posting less often. Because I don’t want to waste my readers’ time checking for new posts when there aren’t any, I’ll put my tentative plan below so that you’ll both know when to check for new posts and how to best pray for my sanity.
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On Writing Mistakes, the Law, and Gospel Freedom

You’re probably wondering why I wrote almost every day for a month and then basically dropped off the face of the Earth over the past couple weeks. Part of it is that there was a post I didn’t want to write, and nothing else came until I was obedient to what I felt the Lord compelling me to write. The other part of it is that I was completely exhausted. Reading and writing every day, on top of work and trying to be social, on top of being busy Saturday night through Tuesday night. Trying to be faithful to all of those things left me winded. But there’s more to it than that.
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Writing, Worship, and Gospel Identity

It’s been a few days since I’ve written anything. It feels like much longer. I don’t know if it was because I’ve been so busy the past couple days, or if I just haven’t had anything to say. What I know is that somehow the days when I don’t write just feel different.
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