ryanhenson

Every since I can remember I have been a Christian.  I was raised in the church and was saved at the age of seven.  I went to church whenever the door was open (how cliche is that?), and always knew the right answers to all of the profound Sunday School questions that I was asked as a child.  I tended to think that I was some kind of church all-star.  The longer I was in church the more I understood the church code and when to say words like sanctification.  It became a game that I played, and a game that I won.  While I was earning my badges and honors in church, I was being destroyed by the number one killer among "church kids", apathy.  I didn't care about what the Bible commanded or what God expected me to be.  I was saved by grace, and that was all that mattered.   I did the very thing that Paul commanded against,      1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 By no means! H...

A new year is upon us, and this year has been a whirlwind for me.  Looking back a year ago, I am not anywhere close to the same person.  I have graduated from college, married, moved, and started a new job in a place that I never knew existed 7 months ago.  Don't get me wrong I am loving all of the changes, but it has made me think about my life and what I am trying to accomplish.  What I came up with recently (more of challenged) is that I want to be bold for Christ. I know this is maybe cliche or maybe even lame, but isn't that the whole purpose of us following after God.  That we trust him no matter what the world or he throws at us and we run with everything we have in the direction he wants us to go.  My resolution is I want to try as hard as I possibly can to follow God wherever he leads.  As Christians we must be tired of going through the motions of acting like we are doing what God says, but when we haven't picked up the Bible in 3 months a...