Category Archives: choices

What do we mean by accountability? In the simplest terms, it is answering the hard questions. Accountability includes opening one’s life to a few carefully selected, trusted, loyal confidants who speak the truth—who have the right to examine, to question, to appraise, and to give counsel. People who are accountable usually have four qualities: Vulnerability—capableContinue reading “What It Really Means to Be Accountable”

There must surely be a creeping anxiety spreading thoughout the English cricket team – what tweets from their teenage years lie like time bombs waiting to be discovered? What adolescent thought crimes may slip out of the long forgotten murky past to destroy their career? I was thinking about my own past, teenage years andContinue reading “The Cruel Age of Group Think”

It was New Year’s Eve, and the 10 of us gathered in the living room for dessert. We began reflecting on the year that was in now its closing hours. Each couple took turns reviewing highs and lows of the year. For the most part, it had been a good year. Bigger and better opportunities,Continue reading “HE Is Coming After You”

The Christian church has always been marked by her ability to create and invite people into transcendent spaces and experiences. The church has always been most dynamic and effective when she has stood in stark contrast to the dominant culture of the day—zigging when the world is zagging. This sort of creative resistance and propheticContinue reading “I Still Like Analog”

Recently my nephew, who attends a private Christian university, related to me an encounter he had with his New Testament professor. This professor held that even if a Christian juror knew without doubt — based on evidence — that a defendant was guilty of a crime, the Christian’s duty is to pass along a verdictContinue reading “Should We Acquit Everyone?”

One of the most common questions a Christian can ask is also one of the most troubling: What does my ongoing sin say about me? The question is common because all Christians deal with ongoing sin, and many with patterns of repetitive sin. And the question is troubling because it ushers us into one ofContinue reading “Your Ongoing Sin”

It was really dead this time. Finally. I could tell when I first caught a glimpse of it sitting on the weather-checked asphalt of the Moose Lodge parking lot. It was sprawled out, horizontally, across the fading yellow lines of three spaces. Gravity had made it roll it that far, and from the way theContinue reading “God Moves On Even When You Don’t”

The Scriptures often speak of God being grieved or angry. But they never speak of Him being discouraged. That’s because discouragement is not an “emotion” that exists within the Godhead. How could it? Discouragement would imply despair. Or hopelessness. Or defeat. And all of these emotions – to speak of the Creator in human termsContinue reading “God Is Never This”

Material goods can turn our hearts away from God. The pursuit of possessions and wealth and a preoccupation with physical things is futile and dissatisfying. Materialism is defined as “the preoccupation with material things rather than intellectual or spiritual things.” If we are preoccupied with material things, it is wrong. That is not to sayContinue reading “Is It Wrong to Want Things?”

Medicine offers disciples of Christ beautiful opportunities for kingdom work. We Christian doctors are uniquely positioned to love and minister to the vulnerable and often view our profession as a calling, a way to daily live out the faith we profess. We put in long hours, study for decades, and awaken in the wee hoursContinue reading “Praying for Christian Doctors”