2020

Last week I wrote about how we need to “say goodbye” to worldliness. To use Christ’s words, “no man can serve two masters.” We cannot both seek Christ’s approval and the approval of men; we cannot simultaneously grow in Christ-like character and mange our image. Yet one of the challenges of growing in worldliness is […]

Last week I wrote about how the world has become more “worldly”. This is in large part due to the fact that technology addicts us to the shallowest experiences of human instinct and self-gratification. Yet if we are to follow Jesus we need to say goodbye to all other paths, to all the lesser things

In last week’s post I wrote about the seeming contradiction between what Christ promises and many of us feel like we are experiencing. Christ promises that ‘His burden is light and His yoke is easy and yet life seems really hard! He calls us to be “oaks of righteousness”, but we often feel weak. According

God is sovereign: nothing happens without His purpose, permission, and limitation. Right now we can’t see God’s purpose in allowing the majority of our students to be prohibited from meeting in-person. But we know from His Word that He is always working for our good and His glory. Think of Joseph’s enslavement and imprisonment or

As we reflect back on this year it is tempting to think about all that we have missed and lose sight of the good. Much of what I have read about the impact of the virus focuses on the more exceptional and superficial things we have lost—“we can’t go out to dinner and a movie

A lot of you are probably wondering what school is going to look like next year. Right now we are in the process of putting together a protocol to ensure that we are doing what we can to keep our community safe while also ensuring that our students get the education that they need and

Senator Sasse foresees three challenges in the near future: 1) Accelerating technologies are going to make a lot of current jobs disappear. 2) The coming-of-age crisis that he’s discussed in this book. 3) The fact that in times of economic disruption we see the rise of people who offer quick fixes, nativist campaigns, and more

Allan Bloom: the failure to read good books both narrows people’s vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency: the belief that the here and now is all there is. America was founded deliberately by people who believed in heaven and hell, who thought about rights and responsibilities, and that considered what type of society would

Senator Sasse believes that, like hard work, travel can challenge and transform us. It can create empathy. It can create challenges for young people to overcome. Sasse quotes Edward Gibbon’s description of a good traveler. “He should be endowed with an active, indefatigable vigor of mind and body, which can seize every mode of conveyance,

In another chapter perfectly fitting the current crisis, Senator Sasse writes that we need to teach our children to exercise self-control in what they consume and train them to seek happiness in non-material things. He says that we must draw a firm line between things that help us to survive, to learn, to live a