We all know what happened last week in Connecticut. Since the shooting, I keep hearing comments like “how could he do that?”, “what would lead him to kill his own family?”, “He must have been filled with hate to shoot his mother in her face.”, etc. This is where nearly everyone is currently and the [...]

“In this is love, (A)not that we loved God, but that (B)He loved us and sent His Son to be (C)the propitiation for our sins.” 1 John 4:10 This is something God has been teaching me in the past few months. Up until recently I read this and I saw “God really loves us”, but [...]

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Depression sucks when it lasts for weeks on end and seems infinitely unbearable when you begin to feel suicidal. This throwback from Shai Linne always helps me to get my head on straight. Dark Night of the Soul (written by Shai Linne) Intro: Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; My [...]

Despite (or perhaps in light of) the overwhelming evidence of teenagers and young adults turning to self-mutilation (cutting, embedding, etc.) and suicide, MTV has decided that it would be unwise to play a recently released video called “Ropes” by female MC Invincible. At first glance, this (at least in my opinion) appears to be a [...]