Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Blogger

     For the past month, my wife and I have been in a place of discontentment. Not only have we been waiting patiently to move into our new house (which we are now almost done doing), but in the mean time, she also quit her job (which supported us) and was unemployed for about 5 weeks. This was a tumultuous time for our marriage, and it felt like there was more than enough to be discontent about. We were stressed about packing up our entire life and moving it, as well as about finances, since we had no major source of income, amongst other things in life. It truly did feel like we were just waiting for the punches to end.  Thankfully, the Lord is a great provider. He is the Provider (Matthew 6). Through the support of our families prayers, and the few of ours that we were able to squeak out here an there, we were able to get through a time where it felt as if we had no stability. Yet this was not without discontentment playing some sort of role. In Jerry Bridges book...

      In a day and age where information has become so important, I find it interesting how at the same time it as also become less important at the same time. Much of the culture is screaming that truth does not matter, or that the only truth which matters is that which matters to us. To much disappointment, the church followed down the same route of ignorance as the rest of the culture. In a culture where the people only want to promote what matters to them, why does the church seemingly not even want to do that? In a 2014 poll by Pew Research, they found that about 40% of professing Christians believe that reading the Bible is an essential part of what being a Christian means to them. What does this tell us? This tells us that 60% of believers are not interested in the Christian scriptures. They do not feel the need to read them, and therefore are plunging themselves into ignorance.      Why is this significant? This is significant because in order ...