Forged By Faith

Matthew 12:34 NIV Fix it And yes, that as is to be done through only the emptying thereof as the fact has become that of which we have filled is the same as that of which we are seen. And for what we are seen is the same as what we can likely see, and that simply because we are all quite amazingly the same even down to our being for now still found upon a ground from which we’ve all gleaned and thus gained all we’ve given way to letting in into that place from which every word spoken starts along its journey unto the hearing of those who hear then all about all we are. But I suppose that such is quite possibly the perfect question that must be asked before everything better becomes anything we can become: Who are we? And granted, that is quite the loaded question as it seems always asked within what’s always been the very judgmental tone in which it’s asked. After all, it all but demands at least some degree of judgement for anyone to even consider asking it. And yet this becomes the p...

Matthew 15:8 NIV Where is our heart? Or rather, what is inhabiting our heart? Or maybe even better yet, what is inhibiting our heart? You see, I think we vastly undervalue the importance of heart in this story of our faith. I think we tend to fall into this assumption that a bunch of fancy words that sound pleasing to the ear will be enough. We approach our faith as if it's something that can built on nothing more than rhetoric. And in doing so, we fail to take hold of the necessity of a repentant and regenerate heart. So much of what this world displays as religious is lacking heart. It's all just skin-deep. It's a matter of putting on a show to satisfy a crowd without any passion or desperation or true torment at the state of the souls that are in this place. Sadly, it's all become a rather light-hearted affair in which people mainly look forward to holidays or large social gatherings or the soft-ball games. But the true purpose of following Christ is found in learnin...