In our Christian lives, we tend to develop hierarchies: hierarchies of age, of authority. The problem is that as we ascend those hierarchies, as we grow in power, in age, or in knowledge, we often tend to entrench ourselves in our positions and ideas. We assume we are almost always right - or, at the very least, righter than those "beneath" us. [Click title to read more.]
Category: spiritual growth
Holy Squirrels
It's true that sometimes God may direct us here or there to do a particular thing and give us awareness of that. But I also think that more often than not God intends to use our normal and our very unremarkable lives - often when we're not looking or paying attention - to change the world. [Click title to read more.]
Failing Before God
In our not-perfection, in our inability to display any real righteousness but what we have in Christ, the effort that we make out of love for God becomes the greatest gift that we can give Him. [Click title to read more.]
The Love That Is Changeless
Yes, we are eternally loved, but somehow that's never enough. [Click title to read more.]
Love Is Going To Feel Awkward
Loving or serving in the way God prefers is awkward and clumsy and strange and the only reason we can do it is because He does it from within us. [Click title to read more.]
Believers Have No Reason To Engage In Casual Cruelty. None.
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.]
God Did Speak. You Just Weren’t Listening.
Those of us who clamor for "a word from God" often mean that we want God to say something to us that He has not already said. [Click title to read more.]
Loving Service Should Not Be A Transaction
I think that, as believers, we're often raised up with the concept of results-oriented evangelism and the sense that our love and service is an investment for which we will eventually see a tangible return. [Click title to read more.]
Where You Meet God Is Unique To You
If you are a believer, where you are, God is also. And where your great love and your great work is in His name, God rejoices. It is in those ordinary spaces that you stand the strongest chance of brushing up against glory. [Click title to read more.]
The Nature Of A False Prophet
Whenever we have the opportunity to talk to anyone about what God thinks, what God wants or intends, or what He has revealed to us, it's wise to double-check before we lead anyone - including ourselves! - astray.[Click title to read more.]
