While I don't believe that Christians should live as slaves to clocks and schedules, so caught up in doing that we forget what we're about, I also believe that it's vital to our relationship with Christ and with others to be...well, reliable. God holds Himself accountable to His appointed times; why should we do any less? [Click title to read more.]
Category: Christian growth
Seriously, Though, Stop Ignoring The Donkey
Don't we, as believers, often ignore or attempt to surpass real-world signals that point to a greater spiritual truth - even as we plead for God to speak to us? [Click title to read more.]
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.]
