Eliciting much sympathy for the American church is hard. It seems we have been blessed with more widespread freedom, leisure, and resources than any other geopolitically-defined group in Christian history. While brothers and sisters in Christ starve physically and endure persecution socially in places like North Korea, Pakistan, Somalia, and others, we sit, seemingly fatContinue reading “King Jesus and the American Dream”
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Praise
Grasses their heads wave in victory cheer Streams murmur of You, The One without peer Mountains white-crested their orisons raise Daisies bright humbly Your attributes praise Lofty pines still You more lofty declare Canyons all echo yet still add their share Wind rushes swiftly to fall at Your feet Clouds grace its worship, in chorusContinue reading “Praise”
This Christmas, Reduce, Reuse, & Recycle
It’s that time of year again: advertising season. I have always interpreted the 30 or so days beginning with Thanksgiving and culminating in Christmas as “the holidays.” But a disturbing trend has been evident in recent history: beginning around October 1stand carrying over into the New Year, retailers have bombarded America with advertisements, sales, and window displays.Continue reading “This Christmas, Reduce, Reuse, & Recycle”
Pray With Your Legs
“I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.” Frederick Douglass “Lift with your legs.” Every weeknight, for a year, that’s the phrase I heard. At the start of the shift: “Lift with your legs.” After break time: “Lift with your legs.” As I slept: “Lift with your legs.” IContinue reading “Pray With Your Legs”
It’s All About Him: How Every Book Of The Bible Points Us To Jesus
One of my favorite Bible verses is Luke 24:27 “And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.” (ESV) I love it because it reminds me that the reason for the Bible, all of it, is to point people to Jesus. It’s very easy to getContinue reading “It’s All About Him: How Every Book Of The Bible Points Us To Jesus”
Donald Trump, a Script-writing Homunculus, and Me
In a lunch-induced fog one afternoon, I was fully immersed in my typical productivity-avoidance routine: scrolling through Twitter, not for the snark and fire icons, but for links to stories that, while not pertinent to my day job, can nonetheless fire my imagination up for an afternoon run back to it. It was in theContinue reading “Donald Trump, a Script-writing Homunculus, and Me”
Evangelism Shouldn’t Be Hard: It’s Just Telling People Good News
Evangelism. The mere word seems to send otherwise mature Christians running for the hills. Potluck. “You know I’m in.” Worship. “I hope we sing 10,000 Reasons again.” But, “evangelism?” “Uh, I’ve got something else going on.” What is it about this word? “Evangelism” is a Christianese word, but it shouldn’t be scary. When the NewContinue reading “Evangelism Shouldn’t Be Hard: It’s Just Telling People Good News”
The Miracle of Transformation
For a brief moment, James stopped and stared at the miracle, transfixed by a reverence that seemed to have materialized in his heart out of nothingness. He was late for his next appointment, but he wasn’t in a hurry. Or, at least not in such a hurry that he didn’t have time for admiring aContinue reading “The Miracle of Transformation”
5 Tools For Fighting Sin & 50 Ways To Use Them
Fighting Sin Admit it: you’re a sinner. So am I. In fact, the Bible says that we’re all sinners. That’s why we need Jesus. Because we can’t seem to get out of our own way when it comes to sin. We’re like the dog in Proverbs, repeatedly sticking our noses back into the putrid resultsContinue reading “5 Tools For Fighting Sin & 50 Ways To Use Them”
Even The Dog Knows: Five Ways To Beat Your Phone Addiction
Was it this one? Or this one? Or this one? What about this one? Maybe this one? Or it might have been this one? I don’t know which article first made me aware of my phone addiction, but I’ll tell you what really brought it home: my kids. It wasn’t that they had to keepContinue reading “Even The Dog Knows: Five Ways To Beat Your Phone Addiction”
Of Shepherds and Sheep 