Don’t Resign Yourself To A Miracle-Less Life

God will still do marvels and great and miraculous works where He is asked and - more importantly - where He is given space to do it. [Click title to read more.]

When “Take Responsibility” Becomes “Why Should I…?”

What I want to focus on is that very often exhortations for other believers to "take responsibility" for their church experience aren't our way of honestly trying to work out a difficult situation or to solve a problem together. Rather, too often, that question is a sly version of "Why should I...?" [Click title to read more.]

We All Want To Be Peters, But Maybe We’re Nathanaels

You don't have to be a Peter. You don't have to have a splashy story full of betrayal and impulsivity and ups and downs to matter to Jesus. [Click title to read more.]

Mighty Indeed: The Hawk and The Orioles

Christians could take a few lessons from those tenacious little orioles, and one of them is this: it's okay to try something absurd. Do the thing that doesn't seem like it will work, but that you feel called nonetheless to do. Aim higher than reason allows. [Click title to read more.]

Solving The Group Prayer Problem

In the interest of encouraging others to participate in "group prayer," then, or in hopes of making it easier for believers to pray around or with other believers when they feel the need, here are some tips on solving the group prayer dilemma. [Click title to read more.]

Book Review: James Martin’s Between Heaven and Mirth

A review of James Martin's Between Heaven and Mirth

Don’t Be Flaky

While I don't believe that Christians should live as slaves to clocks and schedules, so caught up in doing that we forget what we're about, I also believe that it's vital to our relationship with Christ and with others to be...well, reliable. God holds Himself accountable to His appointed times; why should we do any less? [Click title to read more.]

It’s Okay To Be Earnest

We live in a world of artifice, where more often than not genuine enthusiasm and passion for something - for anything! - can be interpreted as caring too much, as trying too hard, as not being critical/cynical/skeptical enough. Our culture maintains a healthy scorn for those it deems to be enjoying themselves too much. But Christians should be different. [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.]

Praying For Certainties

Prayer illustrates the heart of a particular Christian tension: the gap between what God can do, and what we as believers think or know God will do. But as believers, we need to learn how to pray for certainties. [Click title to read more.]