Concentrated Faith

You’ll have to die first Bryan Johnson made millions as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist. Now he’s using that money to try to buy eternal life. Johnson’s Blueprint is the result of $2 million a year in research. His goal is to reverse aging. He aims at building the “next era of human.” A human…

The biggest understatement of all time What if sin is a bigger deal than we usually talk about? The personal impact of sin is explored in Bible classes, sermons, and articles. Sin leads to a host of personal problems, not the least of which is the guilt, wrath, and condemnation that Jesus saves and heals…

Work the steps without God and get nothing. I have no problem with self-help books, broadly defined. I’ve found books like Atomic Habits and The 5AM Club* to be immensely helpful. But the Bible isn’t a self-help book. The Bible isn’t about how you can help yourself, it’s about how God has rescued us because…

The ancient problem that’s turned into a modern plague You’re scrolling on social media and progressively becoming more depressed, anxious, and resentful. Sure, you see some cool stuff, but you end up putting your phone down less happy than you were when you picked it up. You’re realizing that many of your friends have it…

What I would tell my 17-year-old self Adolescent men are often lost and confused. I know because I used to be one. Today, young men in our country often report feeling lonely and depressed. It’s difficult to become a man in a society with no real rites of passage that labels many traditional masculine traits…

What is God training you for? Life is hard, but you don’t need me to tell you that. Obstacles come, things happen, stuff falls apart. Questions like, “why me?” and, “what is God doing?” are easy to ask. There’s a question that inspires me in these moments. A re-phrasing and a shift of perspective that…

Sometimes it’s good to “take it easy” Being a young(ish) man in 2025 means being bombarded by what we might refer to as “hustle culture.” We are told that if we want to be successful, we must take no time off. For a man to be a “man,” he needs a job, a side gig,…

God is more of a low-and-slow kind of chef What tastes better: food cooked in the microwave or food cooked in the oven? If you took the same exact meal, and cooked one in the microwave and the other in the oven, we all know which one would taste better. Sure, the microwaved meal will…

Not what you’d expect The other day I was enjoying a cup of coffee in my backyard when I observed the most Florida thing ever. A lizard leaped from a fern to catch and eat some big, flying bug. It’s a lizard-eat-bug world out there!1 But seriously, the microcosm of an ecosystem which is my…

Sometimes it’s hard to tell Over the past few years I’ve become somewhat obsessed with chess. I wish this meant that I was good at chess. Maybe one day. Something funny happens when you play chess “over-the-board” (in person as opposed to online/digital). Usually, if there are onlookers to the game (especially if they are…