Even if you do fit in perfectly with your age group, it's not challenging or enlightening to expose yourself to a set of worldviews that roughly match yours. [Click title to read more.]
Tag: outreach
It’s Important For Believers To Engage With The World
As our churches grow more insular and our lives become centered more and more within the church, we must not lose sight of the fact that the bulk of our work lies outside it. [Click title to read more.]
Taking The Time To See People
We live in a society where, increasingly, we're told our main concern is ourselves. That we have no obligation to others and no duty to see them. That it's madness to take five minutes of your day that could go to so many other things - like family! or ministry! or work! - and spend it on casual interaction with a person that you've never met before and may never meet again.[Click title to read more.]
The Convenient Vagueness of Being A “Sinner”
It's easy to call yourself a sinner as a shorthand to mean "hey, I'm not perfect." But it's far harder to confess to the actual sin. To talk about who you are when you aren't Christlike. To admit what imperfection looks like when it crops up in your own life. [Click title to read more.]
The Concept of “Christian Business”
What do we mean when we call a business or an enterprise "Christian"? The difference between definitions can be striking. [Click title to read more.]
Putting Down The Bullhorn To Focus On Your Own Sin
We must call out ourselves the way we would call out others before we call out others at all. [Click title to read more.]
What Is Your Biggest, Craziest God-Dream?
What would we do if the sky was the limit? If each of us had unlimited resources - money, time, energy - at our disposal, what would we do here for God? [Click title to read more.]
The Ministry of Things
A few thoughts on how to approach charitable giving as the high season of generosity approaches
You Are The Window To Wonder In A Skeptical World
Most people look askance at the mere concept of miracles in general. Or angels. Or an afterlife. The idea that humans might be part of a bigger, broader story, that there is something epic and cosmic and important above and beyond us, has fallen into irrelevance beside the urgency of now. And that is why love matters. [Click title to read more.]
Return To The Closed Doors
Just because a door is closed once doesn't mean it is closed always. [Click title to read more]
Samaritan's Song 