Losing Sight of Christ

“Do we lose sight of Christ?”

This is a question that I am constantly asking myself, and something that I think we should all be asking ourselves right now. It seems to me that Jesus and the Church have both suffered a great loss since the earlier centuries. As time has gone on we have become infatuated with so many things other than Christ. Some of these distractions such as technology, consumerism and other daily things that are battling for our attention are obvious. However, we easily forget that there are also many “Christian” things that have booted Jesus right off the throne, His rightful place in our lives.

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Rethinking Blogging And Writing Success

The idea for this post crossed my mind while waiting for my water to boil for my afternoon “tea time” at work. I hesitated starting to write this post about successful blogging for a few reasons.

1.) I’m not that qualified.

2.) It sounds prideful to call myself a successful blogger.

3.) I consider myself an “aspiring writer” more than a “real writer”.

4.) I love writing and try to blog as often as I can and as often as I feel compelled to share something of much substance. But I’m no expert on the matter.

It’s true that I’m not an expert. It’s also true that I’m an aspiring writer and not a real one. However, the reason for that is my own fault.

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Counting All Things As Loss

How many of us can truly say along with Paul in his letter to the Philippians that “I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ…”?

Sure, it’s a nice thought and even a place that we should all (as Christians) arrive at. But if I’m completely honest, I know that I’m not fully at that point yet…

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Rethinking How We Use Social Media

I’ve seen in my own life many times that social media, something that should serve as a communication tool, can actually become a destination. For many it has become an end rather than a means.

Facebook has done a great job at making this possible for us. Zuckerburg has created a destination for all us to go online. Everything is embedded into Facebook and Facebook seems to be embedded everywhere else you go online. But what is the point of all this? Maybe the real question we should all be asking is this…

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Thoughts on Reading Through the Whole Bible

You wanna know something? I’ve never read through the entire Bible.

I was raised in Christianity, Sunday school, youth group and all of the above. I’ve been involved in a ton of different Bible studies with people, yet I’ve never read the entire Bible.

To be honest I’ve never really cared to just read straight through the Bible. I’ve always thought those “read the Bible in a year” plans were kind of lame. I’m sure people are able to grow in Christ by doing those, but I’ve just always thought that it would be better to go slower and read certain things over and over until they click.

Another reason that I never wanted to read straight through the Bible is because…

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