Don’t Check Your Personality At The Door

We all have different personalities. That's a strength of the church, not a flaw. [Click title to read more.]

When The Chosen Fall Short

God's children are going to fail. They are going to fail me and they are going to fail you. But the Biblical tale of an ailing boy's father is a reminder that we can't let that come between us and Christ. [Click title to read more.]

This Flu Season, Fight The Spread Of Sickness In Your Congregation

In winter, the best way to care for your Christian brothers and sisters is by not sharing your germs. [Click title to read more.]

How To Be Authentically “No-Drama” Believers

Church drama is more often than not a hydra-headed monster. It might initially be caused by a particular incident or person, but over time it becomes a labyrinthine mess of believers behaving badly, all contributing to the problem without ever owning part of it. [Click title to read more.]

Don’t Dismiss That Dream

There are a few things that individual believers can do to enable "God dreams," either theirs or the dreams of others, and in this the season of giving I wanted to share them with you. [Click title to read more.]

Think Of The Lonely This Holiday Season

We assume that people are fine, and so we never really know if they're longing for connection over the holidays. [Click title to read more.]

We’ve Lost The Benefit Of Necessity

Regardless of their own struggles, the early church seemed to have grasped the notion that the responsibility to share Jesus was theirs alone and that working together, regardless of a host of other issues, was absolutely required. [Click title to read more.]

Five Ways To Be The People You Love To Be Around

These guidelines won't turn you into an extrovert who enjoys socializing. But they will help you to become an enjoyable person to be around: someone who cares, someone who is engaged, someone who is authentically open to listening and serving. [Click title to read more.]

Details Matter Because People Do

A phone call. A text. A reminder to get in touch with that one person about that one thing. A promise to check in about something. An errand. A delivery. A note. They seem small. But when we neglect them, we neglect the people attached to them. [Click title to read more.]

Fellowship Is What Happens – Or Should Happen – In Times Of Church Conflict And Disagreement

I fear that, over time, the church has lost its grasp of what fellowship actually is. We've reduced it to a positive, feel-good form of engagement: bonding at a Bible study, chatting over chips and dips, believers going out in kayaks together. And that's surely a part of fellowship, but not the entirety of it. Fellowship is what ought to happen - what needs to happen - at these crisis points when egregious wrongs have been committed and everyone is (justifiably!) angry and hurt. [Click title to read more.]