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.]

I’m Fine With What I Don’t Know

I can't logically prove every foundation of my faith true; if I could, I'd be able to invent it myself, and I'd have no need for God. God's love, God's providence, God's promises: I trust those things not because my intellect has determined for me that they are certain, but because I believe that what God has said is true. [Click title to read more.]

Empathy After The Fact

If we only ever feel empathy after encountering something personally or through someone near to us, we have a problem. [Click title to read more.]