“Invisible” Sins and Spiritual Window-Washing

I suspect sometimes our desire to appear righteous is greater than our desire to be righteous [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.]

Watching Your Mouth

Simple honesty is best, the Bible counsels, but beware of your own limitations. Watch what you say, and don't you dare utter anything that you don't expect to be held accountable for.[Click title to read more.]

Believers Have No Reason To Engage In Casual Cruelty. None.

That's the culture we're in: one where it's perfectly acceptable to be cruel, as long as you're funny and "no one gets hurt." Believers aren't exempt. [Click title to read more.]

Holy Conviction Isn’t As Terrifying As It Sounds

I used to believe that the conviction of the Holy Spirit operated like the buzzer on that old Operation game. But I was wrong. [Click title to read more.]

Focus On The Red Flags

Your spiritual walk is the sum total of all the small choices that you make. [Click title to read more.]

Let’s Take The Confession of Sins Seriously

For a lot of us,the confession of sin isn't sobering at all. It's something we just sort of...do. Like showering. It is habit. It is flippant. As we go about it we lack, in some cases, a serious sense of shame, and acknowledge our sins in the same sort of way we acknowledge we bite our fingernails. [Click title to read more.]

Forgiveness For Your Invisible Sins Matters

Here's the peril: I don't think we value the forgiveness of "small" sins. [Click title to read more.]

Perfect Outside, Rotten Inside

Appearances can be deceiving. And sometimes a shiny, polished exterior is enough to deceive us completely - especially when it comes to faith. [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.]