Listen to Your Anger When You Get Mad
If we find ourselves getting angry, chances are the anger was already in our hearts. Listen to your anger as the fuse is lit.
Discipleship
Spiritual Backstories
Churches can be places where followers of Christ carefully listen to and pray through people’s life stories with empathy, guiding them toward hope and healing through spiritual backstories.
Giving the Absolute Minimum
Love God. Love your neighbor. That’s it. The absolute minimum for faith in action.
Navigating the Election With Voting With Responsibility and Peace
When we vote with responsibility, we’re not binding our consciences to a particular candidate. We are simply trying to better our country as best we can. Part of “loving your neighbors” is caring about issues affecting them (not just issues affecting you).
When God Uses Ordinary People
Have you ever looked at a young person with extraordinary talents and gifts–looks, presence, brains, personality, and eloquence–and thought, “God uses ordinary people”?
God’s Goodness in Our Struggles
Our lives are filled with tragedy until we see our pain through the lens of God's goodness.
5 Ways to Think Higher and Live Bigger
Keep pursuing Jesus, thinking of his endurance against hostility, to avoid weariness and despair.
Guarding Your Heart and Mind Against Anxiety
The truth is God isn’t surprised by anything that happens to us in this world. When we feel anxious or worried, it can be helpful to remember that God is not surprised by our circumstances.
Why the Next Generation Needs the Book of Ecclesiastes
This is the generation that has been born with the internet, with no cords, with constant access to any and everything. And yet less and less wonder, and more and more cynicism.