it ain't a sin
to want something better than the shape you're in A sermon on the problem with Jesus' address : In school, I was an average student. And honestly, sometimes I couldn’t even chin up to that bar. But as high school tilted toward college , my fortune began to change . While I may not have been great at rapid, standardized testing, I could collect information and relay it reasonably well. In college, it became apparent I was suited for the kind of reasoning the academy prized. Slowly, school transformed from a series of hurdles into a set of stairs I climbed with greater and greater ease . So when it came time to apply for seminary , I aimed high . I applied to a few schools, but one stood at the top of my list. A prestigious one. A seminary that graduating from would have been a feather in my cap. A fact I could casually reference in conversations and impress everyone around me. But as I began to hear back from other seminaries, that distinguished one rem...