Is Jesus leading us to do our good works, or are we attempting to lead Jesus by our good works? Is Jesus’ power what is drawing people to God, or is it our attempts to convince people Jesus is powerful? Are we trying to get people to follow Jesus, or to follow our methods of […]
The Message of the Gospel: You Don’t Need to Improve
I remember hearing an interview with Derek Webb several years back where he was talking about grace and what the Gospel actually is. He said something to the effect of, “We can’t make God love us any more or any less that He already does.” When I first heard this, at that point in my […]
Preaching the Freedom of Grace, While Living The Opposite
I teach and preach about the grace of Jesus. About the freedom it brings. I then say “follow me as I follow Christ.” Yet for those who’ve been around me a while, I don’t think they’d describe my life as one marked by freedom.
When God Doesn’t Meet Our Expectations
We often make deals with God. God I’ll do this for you, if I get this in return. So when we don’t get what we wanted in return… the deal is off.
What Madonna, Ted Kluck, and I have in common…
Finding God in the Dark includes a quote from Madonna: “I have an iron will, and all of my will has always been to conquer some horrible feeling of inadequacy…My drive in life is from this horrible fear of being mediocre.” (p.57)
The Reason We Take Things Into Our Own Hands…
I recently posted on reading the book, Finding God in the Dark and that I’d be following up on several helpful quotes from the book… Page 30 of Finding God in the Dark states, “The reason we take things into our own hands is we don’t believe God’s hands are really at work.” This truth […]