“Our culture has fed us the lie that feeling good is the highest good.” – Trip Lee Go and enjoy your life. Have sex. Party hard. Travel the world. Do all that you can and do it to the fullest. YOLO!! You only live once, guys! That’s the motto of the day. Do all you […]
“I want you to keep dreaming big, but to do so in line with God’s will. I want you to dream big by faith.” How we measure success has been heavily influenced by how our culture measures success. Trip Lee uses the example of two athletes. We might consider a famous an athlete successful but […]
“We’ve been told by our culture that the most important thing in life is the stuff we can acquire. A lot of people point the finger at hip-hop—but hip-hop isn’t the source of the problem. American culture is dripping with staunch materialism…We’ve bought into the lie that we are what we have, so we spend […]
We are in the third section of the book and it’s time to apply what it means to have the good life. This section is about practical application and we start by addressing good works. “Our sinful hearts are cruel dictators. And as long as they rule over us, we’re not free. We’re robots. But […]
“I’ve learned that the good life is not lived in isolation, but rather in community with ‘good people.’” [Tweet ““I’ve learned that the good life is not lived in isolation, but rather in community w/ ‘good people.’””] Christians are adopted into a new family—the family of God. We are God’s children and as Trip explains, […]
Note: Because of our previous discussion we are skipping chapter 4. Today we take a look at The Good Book “God’s Word is the oxygen that He uses to bring us to life. And God’s Word is the very same oxygen that we need to continually breathe as we press forward. If we stop taking […]
“Whether or not we live the good life depends on what we have faith in. The good life is living by faith in a good God.” (p. 38) Many believe that God exists, but Lee believes that it’s more than simply believing in God; it’s believing what He says and ordering your life around it. […]
Editor’s Note: This is a short article for the purpose to generate conversation based on the book The Good Life by Trip Lee. Please join us on each Thursdays for our book discussion.* Last week we looked at some of the lies we believe when we consider what the good life should look like. Today […]
Editor’s Note: This is a short article for the purpose to generate conversation based on the book The Good Life by Trip Lee. Please join us on each Thursdays for our book discussion.* We don’t want to admit it, but we fall for lies every day. Each day we are presented with a promise of […]
What exactly is the good life? Is it retirement, riches, relaxation, minimal responsibility, ease? Sounds rather good to me. But maybe there’s something more. I want to find out and I’d love for us to discover it together. Over the next several weeks we will be going through The Good Life, written by hip-hop artist […]
Most churches find teaching the Scriptures to be a daunting task in an increasingly unbiblical culture. Add to that the difficulty of sharing God’s Word with the illiterate and the church’s growing wariness over a tech-saturated gospel and the difficulty increases. However, there are some who display a keen desire to bear the burden of […]
Recently, Pastor Eric Mason released his new book entitled Manhood Restored: How the Gospel Makes Men Whole. RAAN is excited about this book and we intend to do whatever we can to spread the word about it. As promised, we will release several excerpts from the book hoping that our readers will become intrigued by its content. We […]
Reading through Blood Work by Pastor Anthony Carter. He writes: The history of Christianity is filled with blood. More than anything else, the Bible speaks of the blood of Christ accomplishing for us the grand benefits that belong to salvation: We have been purchased by His blood (Acts 20:28). We have propitiation by His blood […]
By Trillia Newbell, Main Contributor Over at Desiring God, I share four reasons why Christians should consider celebrating Black history month–as Jemar Tisby has also suggested–but should not stop there. Here are four reasons I encourage us to learn throughout the year: we gain perspective, it opens doors for evangelism, we can welcome a greater […]
Reviewed by: Elbert McGowan, Jr., Guest Contributor I have been pastoring college students for the past six years, on the campus of Jackson State University (JSU). JSU is one of the largest Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the country. My college ministry, Reformed University Fellowship (RUF), is the first such chapter started on […]
