Weekly Round-Up

Let's catch up, pray, and rest together. [Click title to read more.]

Putting Down The Bullhorn To Focus On Your Own Sin

We must call out ourselves the way we would call out others before we call out others at all. [Click title to read more.]

My First Ash Wednesday

This season, as we look forward to Easter, my desire is this: to hunger for holiness year-long, and to make love the outward adornment that sets me apart. [Click to read more.]

No, Satan Is Not Responsible For Your Hangnail

In certain places, the following philosophy is prominent: Satan is responsible for all the bad stuff and everything that doesn't happen how it should. This way of thinking has bothered me for ages for two primary reasons: 1) it relieves humans of responsibility and agency for their own actions and 2) it reduces Satan in some cases to a merry mischief-maker, the Dark Lord of Inconveniences. [Click title to read more.]

In Preparation For Easter: Remembering

As Easter approaches, I want to remember who Jesus is - not just to the world, but to me. [Click title to read more.]

What Is Your Biggest, Craziest God-Dream?

What would we do if the sky was the limit? If each of us had unlimited resources - money, time, energy - at our disposal, what would we do here for God? [Click title to read more.]

How To Improve Your Intercessory Prayer Life

Too often, intercessory prayer becomes a task I do: a dropping-off of names and incidents into God's great skybox. As a result, intercessory prayer at times becomes rote and exists at odds with the intimate, reflective rest of my spiritual life. This is my advice on how to remedy that. [Click title to read more.]

Book Review: L.L. Martin’s Positively Powerless

A review of L.L. Martin's book Positively Powerless: How A Forgotten Movement Undermined Christianity

Brutal Faith

Faith is not the belief that one day God will validate and explain everything that has ever happened to us. Faith is trusting that God is who He says He is, and that He knows what He is doing, and that He acts toward us in love. That's it. That's all. [Click title to read more.]

You Don’t Need All The Answers

God speaks and can speak through specific signs and symbols, and even through random-selection Bible verses. What interests me is that Christians can be tempted to rely on those things in an effort to dispel uncertainty and mystery from our lives. [Click title to read more.]