When Familiarity Breeds Contempt for Christ

God doesn’t look how I expect. He doesn’t operate how I expect. I develop my understanding of who He is and He confounds it every time with grace. [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.]

Make It Your Aim To Amaze Christ

I love the idea that Jesus was amazed. That it was possible to amaze Jesus. And that it undoubtedly still is. [Click title to read more.]

Jesus, The Great Teacher

Teaching is difficult. But Jesus embraced it. [Click title to read more.]

We Can’t Argue People Into Becoming Christians

Sometimes sharing Christ means leaving space for God to work. [Click title to read more.]

Act From Love Immediately. Postpone Actions Motivated By Anything Else.

Love immediately, and delay everything that doesn't come from love. [Click title to read more.]

What It Looks Like To Forget God

Yes, in a world that has forgotten God, sin will reign. And in a world that has forgotten God, love will be dead, too - along with mercy, and compassion, and forgiveness. [Click title to read more.]

Italian Nativities Changed The Way I Think of Christmas

As much as we attempt to sanctify it and memorialize it and put it on a pedestal, everything about the night of Christ's birth was as much human as holy. [Click title to read more.]

Forgetting the Audacity Of The New Covenant

God cannot stand barriers between Himself and those He loves: He will tear them all down. Every single one, even if it requires an act so audacious it almost defies thought. [Click title to read more.]

We All Want To Be Peters, But Maybe We’re Nathanaels

You don't have to be a Peter. You don't have to have a splashy story full of betrayal and impulsivity and ups and downs to matter to Jesus. [Click title to read more.]