This word - community - that we throw around (sometimes cavalierly) is, in practice, pretty tough. Part of what Jesus was teaching his twelve disci...
Last week, I mentioned a new project that I helped launch late January of this year: Wrecked for the Ordinary. This online magazine was initially a pl...
"In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted..." 2 Timothy 3:12 Why is this? Is God sadistic? Of course we ...
"To the pure, all things are pure." Titus 1:15 Somewhere along the line, we failed to draw a line. It's not fashionable in a fuzzy, postmodern wor...
God gave Adam two options and He gives us the same two options. At the tree of life you get fulfillment. At the tree of knowledge, the question "why?"...
I'm here in Swaziland for almost a month. There is an insidious policy being pushed by ignorant people that has me hopping mad because i...
I just turned 49. Somewhere in my 40's, I looked in the mirror and an aging man with thinning hair and crow's feet peered back at me. ...
The Bible seems to contradict itself. 2 Timothy 3:16 instructs us to teach. But James 3:1 says that not many of us should presume to be teachers beca...
To know others deeply and to be known is to put an exclamation point on our humanity. It is to meet the second highest of Maslow's Hierarchy of Ne...
We're far too critically-minded in the States. We need to be born again again. We are members of "the faith," but we're often lacking in the faith de...
