Five Gifts To Give To Yourself This Christmas

Some (1oo% free) gifts for a happier and more Christ-focused holiday. [Click title to read more.]

Don’t Dismiss That Dream

There are a few things that individual believers can do to enable "God dreams," either theirs or the dreams of others, and in this the season of giving I wanted to share them with you. [Click title to read more.]

For A Change, May I Suggest Also Giving To The “Flagrantly Undeserving” This Year?

In our desire to help "the least of these," we do ourselves a disservice if we only define "the least of these" as those we find most personally endearing or worthy. [Click title to read more.]

Commodifying God

For lo, according to the gospel of the dollar, our souls are redeemed by our accessories. [Click title to read more.]

Stop Making Failure Easy

One of the best things we can do is to get out of our own way. [Click title to read more.]

Five Strategies To Stop “Learning Loss” In The Church

Rather than learn or study or interact with the word of God on our own, we're often depending on relationships to do it for us. While that's a fine practice, it's becoming a struggle for people to engage with God outside of a relational context, on an individual level. And that's a problem. [Click title to read more.]

The Complex Nature of Gratitude

Gratitude, as I see it, is about accepting whatever we are given - good, bad, and ugly - with the joy that comes of understanding of God's true nature. [Click title to read more.]

What Remains

It is the great gift of the Spirit that to the insignificant, significance was given. That to us with our vaporous lifespans, whose greatest works of human engineering, technology, and intelligence will inevitably collapse and fade, the chance to create an eternal and enduring legacy was given. [Click title to read more.]

Spiritual Growth Is Not Instant Gratification

Our spiritual "exercise" - our study, our prayers, our time with God - yields results in unexpected ways, at unexpected times, and not always on our schedule. [Click title to read more.]

Maintenance Prevents Decay

A few shared experiences and some good feelings aren't enough to keep a friendship, or any kind of relationship, going through neglect and disinterest. [Click title to read more.]