Living Truth in A Lying World

In every super hero movie, the superhero always has an enemy he has to fight.  The entire movie is spent building up to the point when finally, the two collide.  The final battle is often filled with intense fight scenes between the superhero and the villain.  Punches are thrown, weapons are drawn, and lives are threatened.  It is often one of the most exciting scenes of a superhero movie. Spiderman 3 follows this same script.  What is different about this movie than many others I have watched is who it portrays the villain being.  Spiderman is the superhero of course, and Venom and the Sandman are the enemies.   Venom is the character that draws the most attention to me.  Two different characters in Spiderman 3 wear this suit: Peter Parker (aka Spiderman) and one of Peter's colleagues at the Newspaper, Eddie.  In the final fight scene of the movie, Spiderman (Peter Parker) tries to convince Venom (Eddie) to take off the suit.  Venom is not an individual person, but a suit

If you are anything like me, the idea of slowing down may seem foreign.  I'm not just talking about sports, activities, school/work, and all of the other things we fill our schedules with.  I'm also talking about the constant "need" to look down at our cell phone to see if we received a text.  Checking facebook to see what new things come up on our news feed.  Getting distracted by the ads and quizzes on facebook.  Or the snap chat streaks that we "have to" maintain.  Watching youtube videos.  Listening to music.  The list goes on. I am no different.  I distract myself by looking up the latest news articles, checking facebook, and do other things to pass time.  In fact, while writing this post, I have distracted myself looking up how to treat back pain, facebook, and looked up personal financial information.  The struggle to not only do one thing at a time, but to experience silence and solitude, has become a serious challenge in our society, not only

Has there ever been a time in your life, when you really questioned God?  Is he real?  If he is, does he really care about you?  Is he good?  Can he really save you after all you have done wrong?  Am I to far down the wrong path? These are very common questions people ask.  In fact, the above list are all examples of questions I have wrestled with at different points in my life.  There have been times when I wondered if God really existed.  There are times when I have believed that God existed, but he was out to get me.  He didn't really want what was best for me.  There have also been times when I have wondered, can God really save me?  I have done so many things wrong.  How can God really love me, after all I have done? The last question especially, hit me right down to the core.  How can God really love me, after all I have done?  When I try to think through this question logically, I can't ever make sense of it.  I look back on my life, and I see so much sin.  I think o