My Greatest Fear For The Modern Church

In our modern age, with all of the things that there exist in this world for believers to sigh and fret over and fear, this is what I fear more than anything else: that the Church is losing the Word. That modern believers either do not have, or are not interested in, the opportunities for Scriptural knowledge and growth that I was able to have. [Click title to read more.]

Five Ways To Reconnect With God This Spring

Here are some suggestions to keep the flame alive during what is often a distracted and heady time of year. [Click title to read more.]

Forgiveness For Your Invisible Sins Matters

Here's the peril: I don't think we value the forgiveness of "small" sins. [Click title to read more.]

The More We Grow, The Warier We Should Be Of Falling

We are never safe from our worst selves, because complacency and indifference grows as we mature. [Click title to read more.]

Serving Outside The Church

I do fear that as increasing activities encourage us to spend more and more time in the church building, our time in the world is shrinking. And that is a dangerous thing. Out in the world is where we will meet most non-believers; out in the world is where we can serve most non-believers. [Click title to read more.]

Make It Hard To Say No To God

Here's the thing: ignoring God is easier when it's a passive act. When we just sort of let it slide, when we never committed to speaking with Him in any concrete way to start, there's no moment of confrontation or decision where we must utter the truth: that we choose to ignore Him. [Click title to read more.]

The Simplicity of Stars

The Christian life is really pretty simple. Simple like true darkness and stars. But as believers, I think sometimes we'd prefer it not to be. [Click title to read more.]

Why I Am Trying To Be Grateful For Winter

I suspect that God wants to cultivate gratitude in us not just because He likes being thanked - though He does - but also because gratitude in all circumstances gets us in the practice of hammering away at our natural inclinations and habits. [Click title to read more.]

Your Time Means Everything

I like to believe that the miracle of the loaves and fishes was materially incidental - the food met a physical need, certainly, but what matters most is that the offering of Jesus' time and compassion met a spiritual one. [Click title to read more.]

The Blessing of Not Belonging

Christians aren't exempt from peer pressure, and adult Christians aren't either. Every day we face a thousand subtle influences that can determine how we behave in church, what kind of Christians we permit ourselves to be, how we spend our money, and how we relate to other believers and non-believers. [Click title to read more.]