When the Lord first put The Gospel Rants in me, I had no idea where He would take them. I still don’t, but I think this week’s article is an important step toward TGR becoming what the Lord wants it...

As students, we often don’t get to hear about what our professors are like outside of a classroom setting as a normal human being. This semester, I took a really great class offered at The University of Texas at Austin:...

Ambassadors represent their kingdom, and in order to accurately represent the Kingdom of God, we must be rooted in its ways. We get this foundation from Scripture.

You Just Go For The Throat I have too much ambition. I remember the first day I hit the UT campus, the snot-nosed freshman looking to change the world dressed in his high school letter jacket, seeing atheists and agnostics...

The other day I got punched in the gut. Well, not literally, but it was definitely a wake-up call. Have you ever had one of those moments where you see or hear something and immediately go “Oh my gawd, what...

About a year ago, as I made my way up to Tennessee for a staff summit, I received a phone call from my doctor’s office. They told me the kidney disease that I had been battling since the summer of...

A couple of weeks ago I was sitting with a friend listening to her recount a situation at the bookstore she worked at. A man had walked in wanting to place a special book order, but since the associate whom...

I am not the most patient person. Telling me I need to wait for something is almost a surefire way to get me slightly agitated and irate, especially over those oh-so-important things, you know, like waiting for a webpage to...

She was visiting our Friday night group for the first time. People were everywhere, chatting in the kitchen, grabbing food off the buffet spread on the dining table, and playing games on the Wii in the living room. We sat...

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it really means when we talk about “counting the cost” of following Jesus. Contrary to popular belief, I don’t think that being Christian means you’ll have an easy life where everything is...