Leaving 2024, Entering 2025

The church here in Nicaragua differs from the church in the States in a number of ways. One of those is that many of the Christian holidays that are a big deal in the States are less so here (done in large part to differentiate themselves from Catholics). In fact,...

Getting Ready for Christmas

Recently p, I’ve reflected on some of the big things I’ve prepared myself for in my life. In college I had to write and defend a senior thesis, which I started the first day of classes, and poured myself into until the day I defended it. I read over 20...

Jesus our King

I’ll admit, I’m not that into Christmas music. There are some Christmas songs I love, and others I could survive without (looking at you Mariah Carey!). One of the songs on my naughty list is We Three Kings of Orient Are. I’m a stickler for biblical...

Getting Out of the Boat

I recently heard someone say that their way of discerning when God was speaking in their life was based on the perceived difficulty of what was being asked. If it was something difficult, they rationalized God must not be asking that, for God would only ask them to do...

Eliminating the Lies

Sometimes a watching a movie leads me to reading the original book, which is what happened after seeing the film The Big Short. The book, written by Michael Lewis, focuses on the causes and events leading up to the subprime mortgage crisis, which eventually led to the...