The Resurrection of My Ears

One of my greatest fears is losing my hearing. I am a musician, a music composer, and a live sound engineer. Both by hobby and trade, my ears are needed at a high level of precision and health. I test my hearing sometimes with a tone generator and am dismayed to find the frequencies above Read More …

The Glad News of Deliverance: My Testimony of How God Saved Me

This is the story of how I once was a hopeless enemy of God, but God in his power and grace forgave my sins and delivered me from the dominion of darkness into the kingdom of the Son he loves. If you are a brother or sister in the Lord reading this, I hope you Read More …

Life After Graduation

It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since I graduated. Here’s how my life is looking now: ✅ Sins forgiven through faith in the blood of Jesus Christ shed on the cross✅ Adopted into the family of God as his son✅ Sealed for redemption by the Holy Spirit✅ My hope stored up in heaven Read More …

Homilies for My Heart After Wrecking My Car

^ Yup, that car. The one I got shortly after that video. It’s sitting in a tow yard now after an accident last night, probably totaled. Thankfully no injuries to myself (that I know of) or others, and no other vehicles were damaged. Still, a frightening, flustering experience to wreck in a violent spin across Read More …

Psalm 77 — Finding Relief in the Lord in a Season of Distress

This is the outline from a teaching I gave this past Sunday on Psalm 77. This is just an outline, not a full manuscript. But I added a few extra paragraphs and sentences to fill it out a little. I recommend reading Psalm 77:1-20 first and then going through the outline with the psalm open Read More …

Favorite Undergrad Papers: Honors Application Essay

Click here for more posts in this series. This first one was not actually a paper. This was an application essay for the Frederick Supper Honors Program at PBA that I submitted in January 2015 in my senior year of high school. I was accepted and almost completed the whole program but ended up dropping Read More …

“Profiting from the Word of God” — 9 Questions to Ask Ourselves

I posted this on social media at the beginning of the year. But things get buried so quickly there, and I’ve found these questions really helpful to me in examining my own heart and life as I read the Scriptures. This is basically a summary of A. W. Pink’s book Profiting from the Word of Read More …

Searching for Wisdom: Proverbs 2:1–6

In my current season of life as an undergrad, the Book of Proverbs has been my go-to book of the Bible. One passage in particular that I go to again and again is Proverbs 2:1–6: My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, turning your ear to wisdom and Read More …

Advent Devotional: He Knows Our Pain

This was originally written for the 2017 PBA Advent Devotional Guide. Due to the high volume of quality submissions, it was not ultimately included in the guide, but I’m leaving it here instead. Click here to receive daily advent devotionals this season from the PBA community. Hebrews 4:15-16 (ESV): For we do not have a Read More …