How To Improve Your Intercessory Prayer Life

Too often, intercessory prayer becomes a task I do: a dropping-off of names and incidents into God's great skybox. As a result, intercessory prayer at times becomes rote and exists at odds with the intimate, reflective rest of my spiritual life. This is my advice on how to remedy that. [Click title to read more.]

Brutal Faith

Faith is not the belief that one day God will validate and explain everything that has ever happened to us. Faith is trusting that God is who He says He is, and that He knows what He is doing, and that He acts toward us in love. That's it. That's all. [Click title to read more.]

You Don’t Need All The Answers

God speaks and can speak through specific signs and symbols, and even through random-selection Bible verses. What interests me is that Christians can be tempted to rely on those things in an effort to dispel uncertainty and mystery from our lives. [Click title to read more.]

Remember The Absent

It is our job to seek out the disappeared and the vanishing. It is our responsibility not just to note that people are gone, but to find out why and to extend help where it might be needed.

Yes, The Parable of the Prodigal Son Is Unfair and Uncomfortable.

I'd like to be honest and say that if the parable of the prodigal son doesn't sometimes irritate you just a little, you might be missing another truth inside it. [Click title to read more.]

When God’s Love Is Invisible

There's a lot of what God does - and of what God does for us - that we don't know. And often we don't know that we don't know. [Click title to read more.]

Six Teaching Tips For Sunday School Or Small Group Leaders

Many people have the calling to teach, but lack the training that might help them be better or more effective at doing so. In light of that, here's a set of six tips for teachers and small group leaders who might otherwise be going it alone. [Click title to read more.]

Honoring The Past Without Idolizing It

If we value the past more than the present - if we perceive the best part of our lives as having come and gone - we run the risk of always trying to return to it rather than growing and living and being. [Click title to read more.]