Discipleship

How Can We Avoid ‘Believing’ the Bible While Denying What It Actually Says?

We need to learn, and teach other people, not just to read the Bible but also how to interpret it, so they don’t end up being Bible-believing heretics or Jesus-followers who follow a Jesus different than the real Jesus of the Bible and history.

The Narrow Path for the Long Haul

The benefits of having faith stretch far beyond a spiritual checkbox. They seep into how I handle stress, find hope, and relate to others.

Suffering From Spiritual Anemia

We need not starve our souls or allow our relationship with God through Christ to fade like the dying embers of an untended fire. We can seek the face of God.

Full of Connections But Lacking Relationships

It’s only when each person understands their own gifts and is willing to give those gifts to the service of the church that the entire body of Christ grows together.

Are You Ready to Be Healed?

Being Healed Often Means Letting Go of Something

Climbing Out of a Funk

I needed to feel the pressure - the good pressure of necessity.

Your Emotional Life and Spiritual Life Are Connected

The truth is that emotions never die. They are only buried alive. They always resurface, leaking into other parts of our lives and relationships.

Giving, the Gift of Happiness

Sure, receiving a gift is great, and our hearts should be full of praise to God for what he has given us—first and foremost his Son, but also thousands of other smaller gifts we seldom think about.

5 Reasons Prayer Can Be Challenging

And How to Break Through

The Divine Paradox of God’s Sovereignty and Meaningful Human Choice

We need to establish our positions in light of all Scripture, not just our preferred passages that support what we wish to believe.

Are You Praying? Really Praying?

“At the same time, pray also for us that God may open a door to us for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains” (Col 4:3)