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.]
Category: spiritual fruit
Channel Your Sense Of Urgency: What Is Your Spiritual Bucket List?
We should be channeling our sense of urgency into the things that matter. [Click title to read more.]
Get Over Your Fear Of Being Wrong
A lot of believers go through life never questioning themselves about anything. They never confront the possibility that they might be wrong. Ever. [Click title to read more.]
A Meditation On Summer’s End
Slow down. Enjoy everything the coming season has to offer. Fall is short, but winter is long. Take each day as it comes, and give the Lord His crown as the king of your day. [Click title to read more.]
Vague Spiritual Goals Will Ruin You
The grand idea is one of Satan's greatest temptations to failure; you become so enraptured by the vision of what you want to do that you never actually think about how it is you're going to get there. [Click title to read more.]
Stop Caring So Much About Results
Sometimes you give your all and the results are nothing great. Nothing special. Sometimes actively awful. That doesn't always mean you're doing it wrong. [Click title to read more.]
The Transformation Is Not Because Of You
You are not responsible for your own goodness. The person you are "after" Christ has everything to do with God, and very little to do with you at all. [Click title to read more.]
The Best Gift You Can Give Yourself Is Restraint
We assume often that our "holding back" benefits others: that it shields them from our scathing comments, our backbiting snark, our meanness, our deceptiveness. And it does. But restraint benefits us, too. [Click title to read more.]
False Starts And Faith
It's embarrassing to realize that I trust the cycle of the seasons a good deal more than I trust God. Maybe most of us do. [Click title to read more.]
Fruit Inspectors
For all of us, I'm sure, there is a collective set of identity markers and clues that scream to us "fellow believer." But the Bible tells us that's not how you identify Christians. [Click title to read more.]
Samaritan's Song 