Faith; Series: A New Model, pt. 2

Welcome back to my series on the passage 2 Peter 1:3-8. My friend Jon and I decided to step through this passage carefully, intent on finding a new framework with which to approach our relationship to God. It's a beautiful passage concerning starting with one attribute, and strengthening it with another, gradually working through this...

New Series: A New Model, pt. 1

My fiancée and I have been working through a pre-marital counseling book by Francis and Lisa Chan called You and Me Forever. The book starts by attempting to shift the focus of the reader from "what can I do to create a perfect marriage?" to "how can I better rely on and follow God with my...

The Power of a Song

I'm working gradually on diving into a new set of posts that will take some preparation - I've actually had the motivation for the one post for well over a year now, but I haven't taken the time to fully write it out. While I work on the process of putting together some of these...

The Right Tools – A Step Back from Social Media

This is a post that I wrote almost a week and a half ago and for some reason just couldn't work up the courage to post it. I think it's been so long since I've gotten myself to post something that I've been worried that it wouldn't be as good as it used to be,...

Lessons from a Snowstorm

This past Thursday into Friday morning, a bit of a snowstorm rolled through the North East. It hit my area at its worst right around the time most people were making their commute home. I took the longer route home from work, which makes my commute 40-45 minutes under typical conditions. My drive home on...

Feeling Like a Phony

This is really a post about honesty; it's time to be brutally honest. On the way home from work, I was listening to a podcast from Elevation Church, as I have been doing lately. At one point, the podcast mentioned something about times where we've hidden away from that which we are responsible for, alluding...

Re-Learning Forgiveness

Have you ever been somewhere - church, or school, or otherwise - and something gets explained to you that you feel like you knew, but you just never knew it that way? Where all the pieces were there, but all it took was for someone just to explain it a certain way and it suddenly...

Pitfall of a Broken Mind

Those who know me know that I can be pretty stubborn at times. I'm one of those people that if I start doing something, I don't like to stop until it's done. Or at the very least, until I feel I can no longer contribute anything else. In some ways, I think it's a good...

An Open Letter to the Guys I Graduated With

To the boys who became brothers - DR, MS, JK, SC, WD, AM, JL, JC, CD, JW, SB: Who'd have thought it's been 4 years since most of us all came together? I love thinking back to how our friend group started. DR and I leaving our door open, and the slow trickle in of...

Life Updates

Alright. So first, I owe an apology. In my previous post, I mentioned a post I would be writing that would be a bit of an open letter to some friends from college with some further reflections. That post was intended to be written and completed for last Sunday's post. If you follow my writing...