For those of you who don’t know, I’m a rotational musician/leader at church, and I’ve been spending the past seven years finding myself as a musician and as a writer/creative person in general. As a musician, one of the biggest things I’ve had to tackle is stage fright. If you’d known me before freshman year […]
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Growth in the Spirit: Fruitful
If you’ve got something good going on, you’ll want to make more of it, right? Look at the very screen on which these words are “printed,” and you will see a prime example of something good: technology. Digital, mechanical, whatever — technology is one of the greatest things we have. It makes life simpler, faster, more […]
Growth in the Spirit: Roots and Shoots
When a seed finally receives enough warmth and water, it can finally start growing, but when it does, it always grows in two directions. It grows shoots and roots. The little stem pops out from the ground, beneath a surface that appears only one-sided. While we admire the outward beauty and fragility, the leaves absorbing […]
Growth in the Spirit: The Sower
It always starts somewhere. Every single one of us who have heard the Gospel of Christ and responded to it have a back story, a dark place we came from. We can try to deny it, but we have all to some extent been involved in sin and to varying extents escaped from its clutches […]
Growth in the Spirit: Prologue
A few days ago, I was out with a friend of mine. We have been friends since elementary school, and even though he moved away by the time my middle school years were upon me, somehow, we kept in touch. We really reconnected about a year or so ago, when he moved back to Kentucky […]
If Hearts Weren’t Deceitful
Some people believe in cause and effect. Others believe in free choice. Regardless of whether you believe in one, both, or neither, every event is preceded by another, right? I know society as we know it teaches us not to place blame or judge or make decisions based upon a sense of absolute morality, but […]
The World Didn’t Stop
Three years ago, I experienced something I really wished I didn’t. Its echoes to this day deafen me sometimes. If you have read older posts of mine, you will eventually notice a sizable gap, or at least an extensive loss of frequency. Now, what in the world could have hurt so deeply to cause me […]
Approval
I’m no Josh Groban. Most of my life, I would never have dreamt of singing, playing music, or really doing anything with the liberal arts at all. I hated it. I hated all of it. I was always awkward. Sometimes I speak with a stutter, forget what I’m saying, forget what I’m thinking, forget what […]
Thoughts about Friendship, Distance, and Heaven
I don’t usually rant when I blog. I usually don’t get personal. I usually don’t talk about myself. I usually talk about the metaphysical, the ideological, theological, philosophical, universal. I don’t talk about me. Something is different, though. I have a lot on my mind. I need to get it out of my system. This […]
May 21, 2011: When Doomsday Didn’t Happen
Look. Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?”7 He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and […]
Michael William Nichols 