Don’t Be So Ready To Leave This World Behind

When we leave, the light leaves with us. [Click title to read more.]

It’s Not Our Job To Monitor The Ministry of Others

It's easy to criticize what other believers are doing based on what we think they should be doing. The disciples felt they knew best who ought and ought not to be about Jesus' work and how and in what way - and sometimes, so do we. [Click title to read more.]

Speak (Positively) With Your Wallet

The thing is, it's easy to take advantage of Christians offering services or ministries by pointing to "Christian charity" as the reason you should be able to enjoy those services for free. [Click title to read more.]

Finding The Significant In The Small

We should be about the big business of faith, and not about the little business of fretting over forgetfulness and fines and library books. But what if the big business of faith does involve the little things? [Click title to read more.]

The Old Ways of Serving Still Matter

I am a believer, and have been for many years. I am, as I mentioned above, used to "the food thing" churches do. But it was strange to see it with new eyes - to be the stranger in need, one of the people served by a church that knew me not at all. [Click title to read more.]

Mind The Small Hurts

The answer isn't to compare pain or place it on a relative scale of suffering, but rather to address pain as pain, in context, regardless of the source. Yes, we absolutely must kick into gear the moment we hear a word like "cancer" or "death." But I hope we can also mobilize ourselves to respond with similar compassion to words like "frustration" and "fear" and "chest cold." [Click title to read more.]

Superficiality Is The Great Obstacle

Most of us live in a small-talk world. I suspect that's why a lot of people struggle with evangelism. [Click title to read more.]

Ministry to the Childfree And Those With Nontraditional Families

As I grow older, I become more and more aware that I'm part of an odd, niche demographic: the childfree family. And we (along with other non-traditional families) don't often seem like candidates for targeted ministry. But we need our churches desperately. [Click title to read more.]

It’s Important For Believers To Engage With The World

As our churches grow more insular and our lives become centered more and more within the church, we must not lose sight of the fact that the bulk of our work lies outside it. [Click title to read more.]

Taking The Time To See People

We live in a society where, increasingly, we're told our main concern is ourselves. That we have no obligation to others and no duty to see them. That it's madness to take five minutes of your day that could go to so many other things - like family! or ministry! or work! - and spend it on casual interaction with a person that you've never met before and may never meet again.[Click title to read more.]