It is easy, when a dream from God doesn't come true, to assume it wasn't meant to be. But sometimes it is true that time must pass, and we must face difficulties, before we are ready for what God has for us. [Click title to read more.]
Tag: faith and growth
What Will You Revisit?
It's worth revisiting different experiences and preferences in your Christian life as you change and grow. You might find something new. [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.]
Find A Way To Pay Attention To Patterns In Your Christian Life
Picking out patterns in your spiritual life is a great way to figure out what needs work, what's already working, and how God is shaping your life. [Click title to read more.]
Stop Pretending You’ve Mastered The Fundamentals
Most of us are very bad at putting the fundamentals of our faith into practice, for all that we know them by heart. [Click title to read more.]
Sometimes, Ministry Is Simply Doing What You Already Do…And Doing It Well
All too often, our definitions of "ministry" mostly involve either teaching or discipling people, or volunteering to do extra activities for those in need of help or services. We view ministry, in other words, as an elective activity of some sort that we pick up. But ministry can be so much more. [Click title to read more.]
A Fixed Point
You should be able to always look up and see Christ on the horizon. And, like a sword, He cuts through to the heart of every matter, revealing what is relevant and what is not. [Click title to read more.]
Crash Landings and All The Right Answers
We know who we ought to be and we know what the right answers are. But in reality, we often fall far short of our own spiritual self-assessments. [Click title to read more.]
Lessons From The Suffering And Persecuted Church
What can we learn from those living under persecution? That this is the best attitude: to hold lightly to everything but cling tightly to God. [Click title to read more.]
