Idolatry (64)
  1. When your identity is tied up in the judgment of others—you're in deep trouble. Because, however well-curated and photo-shopped your life may be, sooner or later someone is going to look at you, they'll swipe, and they'll move on.
  2. There is no comfort in naked sovereignty. A bully may be said to be “sovereign” over the elementary school playground, but that doesn’t bring much comfort nor does it promise security. We need something more than a God who is in control.
  3. If you do not know who your God is, you will not know what your idols are.
  4. Things are falling apart. Nothing new, just a different way. Jesus falls smack dab in the middle of all this shit!
  5. Turns out the Christian Church's goal was also the pursuit of happiness! Ooops! Thanks Pandemic!
  6. We are so free as Christians that we don't even have to compare ourselves to other Christians.
  7. To be lukewarm is to take refuge in your own works apart from the works of God.
  8. The prophets of old were right: we do resemble what we revere. Our anthropology is hijacked by materialism. We become just stuff who consume stuff and hope to have enough stuff to make life worth it.
  9. Following him will also mean keeping our eyes locked on him so unswervingly that we don’t have the time or energy to be standing on tiptoes, peeping over fences into other people’s troubles and struggles.
  10. So much religion is all about us getting this or getting that. The God who comes to us in Jesus is all about giving us himself over and over.
  11. I’m a drug addict. Specifically, a recovering drug addict. More specific, a grateful recovering drug addict.
  12. Whether we realize it or not, all these online, self-editing actions are nothing more than our admission that we believe that we are so deeply flawed that no one will love us just as we are.
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