So often today we make Christianity about making our life in this world better—and look, following God is the best way—but it is not the end goal. The end goal is eternity with God. Is your focus more on this life, or the next?
Read MoreI wrestled in high school. While making-weight each match seemed to be a 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week obsession, I liked it. And practice—we practiced a lot. We spent hours doing repetitive wrestling moves: over and over, to develop muscle memory of the fundamental skills. Because in the match, my body needed, in a split-second, to react. Why all this talk of wrestling? Well, I have been wrestling with Colossians, especially chapter 3. Wrestling not just as I write this blog post, but in life. Let me be transparent…
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