Discipleship

Fight the Good Fight

Some things that happen in ministry are so absurd that if we can’t laugh, the weight will crush our soul.

Amy Orr Ewing: The As/So Dynamic

Without love, all our accomplishments, efforts and breakthroughs are just noise.

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.

How to Overcome the Great Commission Gap

Discipleship will always lead the people of God outward on the mission Jesus is on.

We Are Thirsty for News of Heaven

I pray your heart will testify more and more that you are a citizen of another world, of a better country, with a glorious King. And I pray you will joyfully cling to His promises that He will return to restore and remake a ruined Earth.

Blessed — More than a Hashtag

Based on its usage, to be blessed means something good has happened in your life. But the issue with defining “blessing” this way is how challenging it becomes to apply that definition to biblical descriptions of blessing.

When Prayer Is Contagious

There is something that touches heaven and moves the heart of the Father when we align together in prayer, in agreement with God’s will.

10 Signs You’re Struggling With Arrogance

Markers for self-evaluation

Why Does a Pastor Need Solitude and Silence?

Silence and solitude can free us from the tyranny we can hold over others with our words. When we are silent and yield to the advice in James, it becomes more difficult to manipulate and control the people and circumstances around us.

Look to the Cross for Better Vision

Though we might still have questions about the days in which we live, of these things there is no doubt. The cross helps make them clear if we will survey it, again and again.

4 Reasons Jesus Used Parables

The significance of Jesus' sermon illustrations