Fear is not the most reliable of counselors. Yet in the face of darkness we all have to come to the terrible truth that monsters are real.
All in Discipleship
Fear is not the most reliable of counselors. Yet in the face of darkness we all have to come to the terrible truth that monsters are real.
We must understand that happiness is something we experience as we choose to pursue holiness.
I suspect that Donald Trump has figured out that as a leader, whether he is nice or crude, he will be criticized.
We do not see individualized, compartmentalized faith modeled in the New Testament.
They say absence makes the heart grow fonder. But not when it comes to God.
It seems like the adage of pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps is still thriving. The rats, however, have a different opinion.
I fear we’ve used our friend Brother Lawrence to excuse our apathetic prayer lives, assigning him words he never said.
Jesus’s parables catch me off guard, causing me to question whether my assumptions about myself, God, and the kingdom are grounded in truth.
There’s something unsettling about vultures. These birds that traffic in death. That subsist off another’s end. That fly circles around the weak and vulnerable, the dying and dead.
Christians shouldn’t have to agree with people, even on big things like politics, in order to have healthy relationships with each other.
I don’t know how to let go. Maybe you have that problem too. I find myself subconsciously and constantly attempting to be better and to do more.
When a biblical writer says something like “this is pleasing to God,” we’d better lean in and take a close look because that sounds important.
One of the marks of spiritual growth is a constant sense of God’s abiding presence through the good and the bad in our lives.
When someone who has been hurt in a way that will forever mark their path, telling them to forgive and forget is cruel and unwise.
I love it, but running hurts. It isn’t fun. It is work. Teaching your body to push harder and faster is exhausting. Dealing with constant low-level soreness is no cake-walk.
Anxious leaderships do allow cranky souls to disturb the peace for those in ministry; too often those leaders are themselves the agitators.
I am thankful we have forthright, get-to-the-point early Christian leaders like James to remind us of the key to it all.
Here are a few things I’ve learned while driving for Lyft, as God showed up in my backseat.
Is the presence of Christ set as the destination of our spiritual GPS? Or are we stuck on the side of the road, settling for peanuts, having forgotten where we are going?
The gospel is an emotional story that requires emotional intelligence to discern and follow.
