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How To Move On From Careless Prayers

I will not talk about my prayer life to make me look more spiritual. My prayer life has a long way to go. If I hint in any way that I am some super saint with an unmatched prayer life, I am lying.

You Become Like What You ‘Like’

So when we talk about “smartphone addiction,” often what we are talking about is the addiction of looking at ourselves.

Everyone, All the Time

Three ways to help your people be part of God's mission

Beth Moore: A Lifelong Learning—Part 1

No matter what’s going on in the world, I can make it if the Lord is loud to me—his Word is really alive and jumping off the page into the marrow of my bones.

Considering New Year’s Resolutions for Your Church?

We make resolutions because we want to bring change to bear on our circumstances. We want to improve ourselves and our quality of life. And the top resolutions, for most people, tend to revolve around the same three poles: money, health and family.

Battling Familiarity in Your Church

Has your church become so comfortable in the familiar that it misses what guests are experiencing? Guests will break through the confines of the comfortable and see Christ, or they will see the church stuck in the familiar and never return.

When Is it Okay to Tug at Heartstrings?

I believe the Holy Spirit often sovereignly uses these emotions (conviction of sin, desperation for hope, grief from a loss, etc.) to prepare the lost for the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Pastors, Consider These 4 New Year’s Resolutions This Year

While you won’t always be as consistent in your followthrough as you had hoped, the process of setting resolutions can be an important spiritual discipline that at least sets our focus in the right direction.