Anyone else experience moments in life when words or ideas just pierce your heart? And it recurs again and again when all you desire is for it to truly be resolved. To truly come to an end, and instead, every speaker, every book, every Scripture, every quote just brings it back up like the pepperoni …
Tag: Kyle Idleman
16th Second
After 30 years in education, I would admit that I’ve heard my fair share of commencement speeches—some memorable, others not. There is often an underlying theme of something along the lines of “go out and conquer the world.” I even ask, that during a life calling assignment, my students listen to an excerpt from a …
How to Die
Perhaps we are not well acquainted. If that is the case, let me offer an attempt to prepare you before you continue reading—I’m not afraid to ask hard questions—whether those questions are for myself, for others, for leaders, or for God. There might be a slight hesitation if I fear I should already possess the …
End of Me
It would certainly bolster my spirits to have a few empathic readers say that not only can they appreciate the struggle I’m about to reveal, but also share the angst that accompanies trying to reach the End of Me. Even writing that statement discloses just how challenging dying to self truly is. Offering even further …
Bathrobes and Towels
Honestly, it’s not a frequent occurrence for thoughts of Bathrobes and Towels to arise while contemplating Scripture, unless, of course, you visualize the numerous childhood nativity scenes where these two garments are essential props for depicting the fashion of the first century. Clad in a parent’s bathrobe and a towel on the head, children do …
Spiritual Arteriogram
How’s your heart? Not a question you typically hear someone ask a healthy person. It’s an inquiry reserved for a patient on the mend, someone recovering from by-pass surgery, or perhaps an angioplasty. However, while reading Gods at War this week, Kyle Idleman was suggesting that perhaps I needed to consider the health of my …
Flourishing @ Life 