Ask any driven church planter if they have a vision of someday having a church with 500 people or a few thousand people and/or multiple campuses, (and if they are honest) they will likely tell you yes. Ask any church planting denomination, and they will definitely tell you yes! This is a successful church in today’s […]
The Enslaving Pressure of Measuring Up to Others
I was learning the hard way that the gospel alone can free us from our addiction to being liked–that Jesus measured up for us so that we wouldn’t have to live under the enslaving pressure of measuring up for others. -Tullian Tchividjian, Jesus + Nothing = Everything
Helpful Way To Keep Daily Bible Reading from Becoming Stale
I’ve been in the (good) habit of reading my Bible on a more-or-less daily basis ever since I was a kid. Starting with Keys for Kids, moving into Youthwalk, and eventually the One Year Bible, reading the Bible daily was instilled in me almost as early as brushing my teeth daily. I’m very grateful for […]
The Only Thing that Brings Peace: Grace
Grace means that no person is beyond redemption, no human stain beyond cleansing…no mistake we make disqualifies us from God’s love Grace teaches us that God loves because of who God is, not because of who we are The opposite of sin is grace, not virtue God seeks not to crush me but to liberate […]
Pray for the Congo and for those on the front lines of relief
I’m an advocate for not becoming overwhelmed by the amount of social justice needs in the world, and feeling like we can solve them all. I am also an advocate for being aware (and not apathetic) of what is going on in the world and supporting and praying for those on the front lines as […]
Can shampoo be racist? What about Band-Aids?
A great challenge for white people is to try to put ourselves in the shoes of a minority in America. I think this act of walking a mile in one’s shoes, which is a very Christ-like, loving, and incarnational thing to do, comes very unnaturally to us. It’s an act I’ve been trying hard to […]