Category: Personal
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A Struggle with Doubt
Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief. –Mark 9.24 Have you ever dealt with doubt, real doubt? I have and occasionally I still do; occasionally there are nights where I look up at the ceiling and question “is what I say even true, is God really there, does he actually love me?” and I can…
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Bloody, and yet bowed
There’s a well known poem out there called “invictus” by William Ernest Henley. Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance…
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Praying in Sanctuary
I ask you, therefore, not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory. For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. Ephesians 3.13-14 This post is more of a personal anecdote. Recently I’ve been praying in Anglican and…
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To an Honest Treatment of Reality
This is what, I suppose, amounts to an honest disclosure of my struggles with my faith. Friends that know me tend tend to joke about how I tend to post “deep comments” on life, love, and death. Yet, for me, I don’t find them deep, instead, I fund them indicative of what I constantly think about, worry…
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What I learned from Urbana
background: Urbana is a major missions conference in St. Louis run by Intervaristy, a Christian Organization, to encourage evangelism and missionary activities among today’s university students. It was attended by approximately 16,000 people Credo in . . . sanctam Ecclesiam catholicam “I believe . . . in the holy catholic church” These lines were spoken,…
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Dominus Pascit Me
Dominus Pascit Me, or in English, the Lord is my Shepherd, is the title of this blog. I greet you, my reader, to this first blog post on this blog. I am a young adult, and a Christian wanting to share a little bit more about what I discover in my faith. Christianity, is not…
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