Time and Chance

I was thinking about how to explain Jesus' atonement to your average person-on-the-street for an article ByFaith asked me to do as part of…

“Sometimes, you’ve gotta just listen to the Spirit.” When someone says that, usually the Spirit has told them to do what they feel like.…

True wisdom is not hidden in some coded cipher on the back pages of a musty book. She’s clear, visible, and prominent. She wants…

My mom used to bake Christmas cookies for our bus driver. Was that a bribe? If so, he might have hoped for better, despite…

The accumulation of riches without wisdom would be like building out a hardware superstore in your backyard, while being unclear how to use a…

Despite our temptation to draw broad stroke, short-cut evaluations of a church’s faithfulness to Christ based on its forms of worship (music, liturgy, ministries),…

If you hand over your car keys to your sixteen year old, you can pretty well guarantee the car is not going to come…

It’s not that evangelism training is useless, it’s just that graduating from the latest training program can be a bit like completing one year…

Small groups are the hardest thing in the world. You know why? Two reasons. First, because they are supposed to do everything. Secondly, relationships.…

What should your church do well? Discipleship? Missions? Evangelism? Worship? Teaching and education? Service? Well, it’s all about context, right? Wrong. The answer is…