“Standing at the Crossroads”

When I was in my late 20s, I found myself standing at the crossroads… looking….

I had always wanted to follow Christ wholeheartedly, to be committed to His word, but suddenly a confluence of events left me asking: “Is this belief really from the Lord, or is it just a popular idea?” And I wasn’t just asking this question about one idea, but several.

I came from a great Christian family where we discussed how God and His Word affected daily life and applied to cultural issues. Yet somehow, years at school and in college, and just the influence of popular culture had, well, influenced me. It was so subtle, but I began to see beliefs I had taken as my own that weren’t really biblical at all, that were in fact opposed to Biblical truth.

I remember thinking, “I want to be aggressively Biblical.” That is, I wanted to work at finding the truth, peeling back the layers of my own thinking, and the cultural layers mixed in with those, to try to find what was really true from God’s point of view.

This blog is not the culmination of all of that, but a continuation. I know there is still a lot that I don’t know, and still ways I am probably under influences I don’t recognize, but I’m thankful for the ways God has given me freedom in His truth, to think in better, truer ways. I want this blog to invite others to do that with me–to look at a variety of issues and seek to see them through a Biblical prism. I need your help to do that–we all need each other’s help, in an “iron sharpens iron” sort of way–to bring self-recognition and truth-recognition to pass. I hope you will join me!