I don't think we often realize it, but sometimes Christian confidence expressed in the wrong way can look a lot like Christian callousness - even when it's well-meaning. And compassion is the only way to leaven it. [Click title to read more.]
Tag: Christian living
Quirkiness and God’s Church
The world doesn't need more salespeople for the Gospel. It doesn't need shiny ambassadors doing PR for Jesus. What it cries out for more than anything, especially in our hyper-artificial day and age, is authenticity from people who follow Jesus. [Click title to read more.]
Home Anywhere
Your brothers and sisters in Christ are everywhere you go. [Click title to read more.]
Book Review: John Ortberg’s Everybody’s Normal Till You Get To Know Them
A review of John Ortberg's Everybody's Normal Till You Get To Know Them. [Click title to read more.]
What I Am Learning From My Project To Read A Passage of Scripture Every Single Day For A Year
Reading the Bible a little differently than I normally do is teaching me some interesting things. [Click title to read more.]
The Car Lesson
I remembered a valuable lesson when the brakes on my car gave up the ghost. [Click title to read more.]
Ignore Christian “Best Practices” If They Don’t Work For You
The suggestions and ideas people have for us to improve our spiritual lives are just that: suggestions, not Scripture. [Click title to read more.]
Springtime For The Soul
A glimpse of spring can make all the difference. [Click title to read more.]
A Deeper Look At Jesus and The Pharisees
When we focus only on Jesus' anger at the Pharisees, we miss a lot. [Click title to read more.]
Loving Silence And Intimacy With God
As Ecclesiastes reminds us, there is a time to speak and a time to be silent, and too many of us aren't silent nearly often enough - or, when we are, we experience that silence as one of deprivation, restraint, and biting-back. Loving silence is different. [Click title to read more.]
Samaritan's Song 