I just got asked, “Why don’t you smile anymore Josh?”

Meditations on Job 30:16-19
My scars torment me
Day and night they still bleed
Always coming,
And never relenting
I fight back and am triumphant
Only to fall back into my own pit
Full of my own vomit
I thrash around begging for air
Craving to be set free
But I open the wrong hand
And so now my life drains out
As callousness seizes and grips [...]

What I’m Reading This Week: Job
What I’m Listening To This Week: Bob Marley, Radiohead - Kid A, Dispatch, Sublime, IZ, Sister Hazel

Below is one of the best and most profound emails I’ve ever received. My friend Sharon sent it to me and she is right on target. Some would say only a genius could write it. On a related note, my friend T.J. was telling me about something this guy wrote. He said that 99% of [...]

What I’m Reading This Week: Job
What I’m Listening To This Week: The Wallflowers - Red Letter Days, Evanescence - Fallen, Ben Harper - Welcome to the Cruel World, Chris Issak, Radiohead - Kid A, Jars of Clay - Furthermore

” . . . Pilate told Joseph he could have the body. 46Joseph bought a long sheet of linen cloth, and taking Jesus’ body down from the cross, he wrapped it in the cloth and laid it in a tomb . . .” Mark 15:45-46
What a priviledge. To gently take His body off the cross. [...]

An excerpt from an article from the print version of Relevant Magazine.
One of the greatest hindrances to the growth and maturity of the average believer has been the creation and marketing of an alternative to popular culture that has identified itself as being Christian. This alternative has become so widespread and successful that we now [...]

I have absolutely no idea why it’s taken me so long to come around to listening to Radiohead. Growing up when I only listened to what the radio told me to listen to, I thought Radiohead was weird. So I guess since that time, I’ve just carried this odd image of them in my head. [...]

What I’m Reading This Week: Job, The Younger Evangelicals by Robert Webber
What I’m Listening To This Week: Alison Krauss and Union Station - New Favorite, Weezer - Blue, Dispatch Mix, Jack Johnson - Brushfire Fairy Tales, Norah Jones

I was hit again with yet another reason to quit school and do something more productive with my life. On Sunday after morning worship, I go to Starbucks and read and catch up on my school reading and occasionally do some writing. Then I head off to my small group of 11th grade guys. It [...]