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.]

No, Life Isn’t Fair. But We Can Try To Tip The Scales.

Although the world is fundamentally cursed and unfair and we have to reconcile ourselves to that, we also need to think about the fact that we are the ones who can make it a little less unfair. [Click title to read more.]

Be Open To Correction From Unexpected Places

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.]

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.]