Holy Squirrels

It's true that sometimes God may direct us here or there to do a particular thing and give us awareness of that. But I also think that more often than not God intends to use our normal and our very unremarkable lives - often when we're not looking or paying attention - to change the world. [Click title to read more.]

Failing Before God

In our not-perfection, in our inability to display any real righteousness but what we have in Christ, the effort that we make out of love for God becomes the greatest gift that we can give Him. [Click title to read more.]

Book Review: John Ortberg’s If You Want To Walk On Water, You’ve Got To Get Out Of The Boat

A review of If You Want To Walk On Water, You've Got To Get Out Of The Boat by John Ortberg. [Click title to read more.]

Losing The Sense of Entitlement

I wonder more and more if a sense of entitlement isn't the curse of the modern Christian. I've been convicted about it lately, this concept that I have: that there are certain things in life that I deserve and should have, and that not having them represents a violation of some sort of pact God never actually even made with me. [Click title to read more.]

What You Can’t Imagine

There are endless, endless beauties, even in this sad and fallen world. [Click title to read more.]

The Love That Is Changeless

Yes, we are eternally loved, but somehow that's never enough. [Click title to read more.]

Love Is Going To Feel Awkward

Loving or serving in the way God prefers is awkward and clumsy and strange and the only reason we can do it is because He does it from within us. [Click title to read more.]

Believers Have No Reason To Engage In Casual Cruelty. None.

That's the culture we're in: one where it's perfectly acceptable to be cruel, as long as you're funny and "no one gets hurt." Believers aren't exempt. [Click title to read more.]

God Did Speak. You Just Weren’t Listening.

Those of us who clamor for "a word from God" often mean that we want God to say something to us that He has not already said. [Click title to read more.]

Loving Service Should Not Be A Transaction

I think that, as believers, we're often raised up with the concept of results-oriented evangelism and the sense that our love and service is an investment for which we will eventually see a tangible return. [Click title to read more.]