When speaking of the world and its pleasures, it all seems so … inadequate. I formerly saw the things of this world as things which I desired, things that brought purpose to life. Today, it all seems so … shallow, filled with vanity and excess. But when Christ brings His peace, not as the world…

Honestly, there’s a fascinating tension there: the more closely someone reads Scripture, the more they can find themselves at odds with things that are simply assumed to be “Christian” today. There’s a difference between becoming less like modern Christianity and becoming less like Christ. Those aren’t necessarily the same thing. Jesus Himself repeatedly confronted religious…