from John Owen’s The Mortification of Sin, Chapter 3. Not the greatest passage from the book… hopefully there will be better quotes from Owen later.

“Men are galled with the sin that hath prevailed over them; they instantly promise to themselves and to God that they will do so no more; they watch over themselves and pray for a season, until…

It hits every semester like a brick wall. Apathy. Apathy for all things academic. Usually it takes a round of tests to do this. But this semester is different. Even though I have no desire to do any schoolwork already, it has become easier to will myself to work. Why? Because I am convinced that it matters in the long…

Last weekend was all about war. Yes, I was back in Dallas helping the home church with a Disciple Now, obviously. You know you’re in for a crazy weekend when Luke Cagle is making a seventh trip to his car after already bringing into the house a sledge hammer, golf clubs, an AK-47 air soft gun, and a ‘Jesus is…

I’ll have to admit these new iPods are really quite nifty. If I didn’t have this stubbornness about refusing doing the same thing everyone else does and didn’t own Dell’s knockoff iPod, then I’d be trying to buy one, too. But with the increasing availability of music, there is certainly a tragic loss of silence. I hear the question now,…

Are Mondays allowed to be this good? The rest of the days of this week must tremble with the standard set by this Monday. Aside from seeing some long lost friends and having an extremly cooperative TA for Ethics, we had 16 new freshmen show up tonight to Journey!! That is 1-6, sixteen. After all the trouble we had losing…