Be wise with your choices and thoughtful with your time. Devoting your time to God doesn't always mean overloading your schedule with church activities. [Click title to read more.]
Category: church
What We Miss When We Romanticize The Early Church
I often think our modern church is guilty of romanticizing the New Testament Church. And yet it strikes me that we only ever seem to romanticize those warm, cozy moments when believers are hanging out together in small rooms. [Click title to read more.]
Shibboleths and Gatekeepers
The only word necessary to cross the great ford that separates us from God is the name of Christ, and anyone can say it. May God spare us from becoming self-anointed gatekeepers over minor and insignificant issues. [Click title to read more.]
The Dangers of Being Easily Influenced (By Really Good People)
When we let ourselves be too easily influenced by other Christians - even the really, super-good ones! - we run the temptation of idolizing them. And then we're crushed and brokenhearted when it turns out that they're not perfect after all. [Click title to read more.]
Your “Comfortable” Is Someone Else’s Blizzard
In fact, sometimes - without even intending to - I expect that other Christians will always respond to situations or think the same things or share the same feelings or hobbies or preferences that I do. And that's hardly the case! [Click title to read more.]
Faith Does Not Think In Terms Of Quantity
Giving up all to serve one isn't something to be ashamed of. It's the kind of math the Bible tells us we're supposed to be best at. [Click title to read more.]
Dissecting The Church Clique
That word, "clique" - people don't like it. And they don't like being described with it because they associate it with cattiness and backstabbing. But that's not the way I mean it here. When I say "church clique," I'm simply referring to a group of Christians with a shared history whose culture (often unintentionally) is more insular than inclusive. [Click title to read more.]
Making Room For Discomfort In Church
We as believers need to make it possible for people to express, to discuss, and to interrogate their discomfort without punishing, ostracizing, or condemning them for doing so. [Click title to read more.]
Speaking With Christian Authority Requires Special Consideration
When people with authority speak, their words carry a lot of weight. An insult or a slight can crush. A discouragement can stop a growing ministry in its tracks. A baseless criticism can wound a tender soul. [Click title to read more.]
How To Handle The Easter Aftermath
It's true that people need a rest after the emotional intensity of Easter. But it's also true that "rest" shouldn't mean "take a vacation from God until fall." [Click title to read more.]
Samaritan's Song 