Something about the church - as a place bounded by time and space where God's people gather - is important and nourishing. [Click title to read more.]
Category: spiritual growth
The Ministry You Don’t Think About
Our influence on others doesn't depend on face-to-face interactions or explicit ministry acts. [Click title to read more.]
Responding To Others Is Important. Don’t Neglect It.
Ignoring people, even out of carelessness or because we're distracted, is a contradiction of our call as loving servant-followers of Christ. [Click title to read more.]
Technology Is Not Ministry
We mustn't let our love of new technology and innovations become a stumbling block for those who want to reach Jesus. [Click title to read more.]
The Core of Christian Difference
Being a Christian and being set apart from the world involves much more than merely modifying or abstaining from some behaviors. [Click title to read more.]
The Terrifying, Roller-Coaster Moments of the Christian Life
The ramification of the prosperity gospel and some of its watered-down versions is a pervasive belief that the Christian walk will never have anything inherently difficult about it. We don't like to think that God might ask us to do something we dislike, or find unpleasant. [Click title to read more.]
Christianity And Your Feelings
Some thoughts for those who struggle to incorporate their feelings and emotions - good and bad - into their Christian walk. [Click title to read more.]
Small Builds On Small
Many times, ministry is the summation of a great deal of little things that eventually accumulate into the overwhelming love of Christ. [Click title to read more.]
Maybe It’s Time To Think About Memorizing Scripture
I want to memorize Scripture. I also don't want to turn God's word into a dreaded chore or a rote task, so I'm trying to do it my own way. [Click title to read more.]
The Abrupt Beauty Of The Psalms
Sometimes the refrain of lament-to-praise feels like whiplash, like a contradiction. To those unfamiliar with it, it undoubtedly reads that way. And yet it’s the walk of faith: the sometimes-grim or sorrowful recognition of what feelings exist, the acknowledgment of one’s circumstances, paired with the resolution that God is who God is. [Click title to read more.]
Samaritan's Song 