The Official Site of Joseph Hinson

Category: Faith

  • Compulsive Evangelist

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    As I’ve stated before, I’m a Crossfitter. I really enjoy Crossfit. So much so, I built a site dedicated to helping people get fit. I’m also a web developer, so obviously I built a site about that, then I’m a dad, so I built my kids sites, and last but not least, I built a…

  • Prayers of Jesus

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    The sermon at church on Sunday was about prayer, about how when we pray, we tend to think God answers or doesn’t answer because of our state, our ‘worthiness’. When in reality, God answers because of his goodness, our goodness or worth has no bearing on the situation, in fact, we’re no good without him,…

  • It is our self-righteousness – not our sin – that keeps us from God

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    This is the second post in a series of posts about discovering the nature of God. Read the previous post here. One of Jesus’ most well-known parables is the story of the prodigal son (If you know the story, skip to paragraph 3). In the story, a father has two sons. The youngest of which…

  • We aren’t called to be perfect, we’re called to be redeemed.

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    Subtitle: The simple truth about the love of God. I know some people who have screwed up in their lives. We all do, we all have. Many times though, our failures are used by the enemy to make us feel like we aren’t worthy to come to God. The other day I thought to spend…

  • Living the Dream [my 30th birthday]

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    I turned 30 today. It was really a wonderful day, because my parents kept our two kids last night, so that my wife and I could go out and be together for the evening. We went out to dinner, got some coffee, took in a movie, and talked until late before going to bed. This…

  • God is good.

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    In February of this year, I realized for the first time that I didn’t trust God. I didn’t want to give my life over to him, to fully submit to Him the future of my family and my children. I didn’t even realize I was doing it, but I was keeping them from Him, as…

  • Lives acceptable to lose…

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    I have never been a pacifist, nor am I now. I believe in defense of self, family, home, and freedom (not necessarily in that order). I have never been a violent person, nor prone to act out in aggression, but I do get passionately angry about injustices done to innocents. I am against abortion. I…

  • In Ward

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    For the past year I have struggled on and off with anxiety and mild depression (yeah, this is Joseph, and yes this is true). Being a man of deep faith, I have begged to God to take this pain away from me, this constant worry, this feeling of dread and hopelessness. The past month has…

  • Lessons learned from my missionary Journey

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    Almost 4 years ago now my wife and I went to the other side of the world on a missionary journey where we posed the question: Is this where we will live the next 20 years of our lives? It was a grandiose idea. We were young and passionate and eager to be used for…

  • Love your enemy.

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    Matthew 5 43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’44 But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends…