A Few Good Posts

I'm taking a break from blogging for ten days. So have ten good posts, instead. [Click title to read more.]

Approaching Revelation With A Different Perspective

I've always had a vexed relationship with Revelation, and I think most of the church does. Over the centuries believers have treated this book of the Bible as a decoder ring for current events, but in reality, it is worth a lot more than that and we should approach it as more than that. [Click title to read more.]

Let’s Stop Pretending Choices Only Matter For Adolescents

Among Christians, there's a sense that we've "made it" if we head into our adult years with our faith and our lives mostly in one piece. Except that isn't really the case. [Click title to read more.]

What You Need When You Need It

In the Christian walk, we usually don't have what we need...until exactly when we need it. [Click title to read more.]

Avoiding “Summer Death”

My church is dead, and summer killed it. But don't let summer kill your spiritual walk, too. [Click title to read more.]

Obedience As Intimacy

Obedience is a form of engagement with God: an act of explicit intimacy and great love. [Click title to read more.]

The Complexity of the Psalms

We miss the fullness and the complexity of the Psalms when we insist on cherry-picking certain cheery verses from them. [Click title to read more.]

Obedience That Looks Easy Comes From Struggle

The longer we work at something, the simpler it becomes. [Click title to read more.]

Lessons From A Robin’s Nest

In all honesty, too many of us are hothouse believers: Christians who only fully express their holy nature when the circumstances and the moment and their feelings are right. [Click title to read more.]

Monday Morning: Making Your Spiritual Practices Work Better When Your Hair Is On Fire

I don't want God to be a chore, or one more thing that I have to do for the day. Here are five things I've started doing to make my Monday spiritual practices a little more bearable. [Click title to read more.]