Justin Poythress

Jan 11, 2025 | theaquilareport.com | Justin Poythress

C.S. Lewis puts his finger on this desire – a yearning homesickness – as the deepest human longing, and what eventually led him to Christianity.

Dec 22, 2024 | theaquilareport.com | Justin Poythress

How do you respond to that unfair comment or inconsiderate request? Will you give in to the temptation of instant gratification? Are you mastered by your spirit, or do you master it? These are the real battles where Jesus calls you to fight and makes you a conqueror. Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city. – Proverbs 16:32I went through a stretch where I was obsessed with the game Risk.

Oct 6, 2024 | theaquilareport.com | Justin Poythress

This is more than the power of positivity or a gratitude journal. The goodness of God alleviates more anxiety than a swaggering self-confidence because it frees you from that dreadful cell of…you. The antidote to anxiety is basking in the truth—God’s got this. Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad. – Proverbs 12:25One of my biggest beefs with sociology is that it tends to be heavy on problems, light on solutions.

Aug 23, 2024 | theaquilareport.com | Justin Poythress

The problem isn’t ordinary life. Jesus slept, ate, joked, and paid taxes. The problem is that we’re content with the ordinary. We need to widen our hearts. We need to learn how the ordinary are sign posts to the greater joys, the greater relationships God has made us for. We need to be planning for growth. A civil engineer here in Boise shared a consultant’s advice on how the city should plan for growth.

Jul 25, 2024 | theaquilareport.com | Justin Poythress

You don’t have to know everything to follow wisdom and avoid folly, but you have to know where to start. If you trust and follow Jesus, he promises, in fact he delights to lead the simplest person into profound wisdom. Jesus himself, as he reveals himself in Scripture, comes with spectacular packaging. And in our world, he isn’t hard to find. He doesn’t hide or make himself scarce, and he offers the real deal in a world of counterfeits. The woman Folly is loud; she is seductive and knows nothing.