Ashish Joy

Living Out As It’s Meant To Be

Category: Spiritual

A Redaction

There’s some­thing to be said about liv­ing life and not just talk­ing about it. I haven’t writ­ten for some time now for a whole host of rea­sons. Not enough time to ded­i­cate to writ­ing, maybe not enough pas­sion for it… the excuses are numer­ous and well-reasoned. But to be hon­est with you, it’s been more [...]

Hopes & Dreams

These are some thoughts for what I con­tin­u­ally pray and believe for in my city…
There is a world in need of peo­ple who would bear Christ and his king­dom to the ends of the earth. To fur­thest cor­ner of the nations of our world, to the for­got­ten cor­ners of our cities and towns, Jesus is looking [...]

Summer Meditations

When I take an up close, per­sonal look at my faith, I am most amazed not dur­ing times of rel­a­tive peace and secu­rity. Rather I am most amazed at what this rela­tion­ship I have with Jesus does for me when I walk through tough times, when I’ve made mis­takes, when the road ahead is marked [...]

On A New Ethic

These are some thoughts on king­dom ethic; life as a Christ-follower
Vio­lence as seen in the Old Tes­ta­ment, was a part of God’s plan for the nation of Israel, but vio­lence is abdi­cated through the per­son of Christ, his Cross, his mes­sage, and his body. Non-violence is the path of the Chris­t­ian, and we must return [...]

Some Thoughts On Grace

Excerpt of a jour­nal entry from 1.5.09
We have wal­lowed long in the mis­ery of a depraved exis­tence; lan­guished will­ingly in a lifestyle of sin and suf­fer­ing. We find our­selves now in the debt of divine prov­i­dence; and Oh what a for­tu­nate prov­i­dence we have. We are chased so unde­servedly by the intense, rav­ing love of God.
This [...]