Discipleship

How Can We Prepare to Trust God Through Trials We Don’t Understand?

None of us knows what 2026 will bring, but no doubt it will have its difficult moments as well as its wonderful ones. How can we wisely prepare our hearts and minds to trust God through trials when they come?

Pastors Are Shepherds, Not Superheroes

Maybe it’s time we change the narrative. Expect your pastor to be a shepherd, not a superhero. Don’t demand their presence at every event or their attention at every moment.

Understanding the Longings and Language of Gen Z

It is our responsibility as leaders to reintroduce a generation to the true essence of Jesus and his original vision for the church.

Will We Know Everything in Heaven or Will We Learn?

If I can always be learning something new about finite, limited human beings, how much more will I be learning about Jesus in the ages to come?

5 Ways We Disrespect Jesus

Nothing demonstrates unbelief better or more eloquently than our refusing to bring to the Lord an offering to testify of our looking to him for our future needs.

Worship Is in Our DNA

And how the core problem of misplaced worship leads to deeper sin.

3 Tips to Trusting God … Always

When circumstances seem to mount against you, when you are feeling anything other than confident, when you are shake to your core and confused about what’s happening in life - these are times when you start to feel that verb. Trust is work.

Staying the Course Even When It’s Hard

I’ve been a believer for 49 years, but I still battle with faith some days.

Intimidated by the Bible

As we think about the importance of Bible engagement and discipleship, a natural question arises: why is it that so many own numerous Bibles, yet so few actually read them?

In This World, But Not of It

Believe. Become. Behave. Our faith leads to transformation which leads to a different set of behaviors. Tucked inside that formula is the importance of the way we think.

Raising Faithful Stewards

Children who grow up getting most of what they want without having to earn it have a predictable future.