The Better Bread
Picture a flock of sheep in a green pasture. What do they normally do there? They eat. When a sheep lies down in a green pasture it can...
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Jul 11, 20223 min read
How to Follow the Spirit Like an Apostle
One of the things I love most in reading Paul’s letters is the little biographical bits he throws in every now and then. These usually...
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Jun 8, 20223 min read
My Favorite Personality Test
Personality assessments are everywhere. Between the Enneagram, Myers-Briggs, CliftonStrengths, and the 52 others out there, I can easily...
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Oct 18, 20214 min read
How to Identify Counterfeit Gospels
When I ordered from a clearance website that offered a deal of “$25 each when you buy three pairs of Ray-Bans,” I should have had some...
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Jun 7, 20213 min read
The Scandal of Grace: Jesus Loves Bad People
Martin Luther said that, since the fall, our hearts have been hard-wired with a “wages” mentality: We only get what we deserve. We’re...
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Apr 26, 20214 min read
Three Warnings for the Religious
In one of Jesus’ most well-known parables, two men build nearly identical houses, geographically close to each other but on different...
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Apr 22, 20214 min read
Michael Jordan, Jesus, and a Ton of Fish: In the Presence of Greatness
When I was in middle school, I got to meet Michael Jordan. At the height of his fame, he came to a local golf tournament, and my best...
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Apr 12, 20214 min read
Four Questions to Determine If You’re a Disciple
For the first Christians who heard, “Take up your cross” (Luke 9:23), it was not poetic or symbolic language; it was quite literal....
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Mar 29, 20212 min read
God Built This House With That Storm in Mind
What thing in your life, if taken away, would make life not worth living? What has to be present in your life for you to feel fulfilled...
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Sep 14, 20203 min read
Give Jesus Your Worries (and Don’t Take Them Back)
In Luke 18 Jesus tells the story of two men that went into the temple to pray. One man was religiously and professionally accomplished,...
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Sep 3, 20203 min read
Follow Jesus, Expect Suffering
There’s a reason prosperity gospel preachers don’t spend much time preaching from 1 Peter. In talking about experiencing hardship and...
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Aug 31, 20203 min read
As You’re Waiting, God Is Working
When you read from the Prophets and Psalms, you may be struck with how much of them come from a posture of waiting. Throughout Psalms,...
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Jun 1, 20203 min read
Why Narcissists Can’t Find the Will of God
If I ever had the chance to ask the Apostle Paul what his purpose was, I would have expected him to begin with his Damascus Road...
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May 21, 20203 min read
Are You an Immigrant, Tourist, or Exile?
Peter wrote his first letter to a church whose world had been turned upside down like ours has. In the opening greeting, he says he is...
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May 18, 20204 min read
Have You Ever Been Cut to the Heart?
Less than two months after Jesus had died on the cross and resurrected from the dead, the Spirit that Jesus had promised to his disciples...
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Apr 20, 20202 min read
Worried? Replace Your What-ifs With Even-ifs
Jesus once asked, “Can any of you add one moment to his life span by worrying?” (Matthew 6:27 CSB) No! Worry doesn’t add anything to your...
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Mar 9, 20203 min read
What Rogue One Teaches Us About God
I’m just going to make my stance clear, once and for all, because I know many people have wondered and speculated about it. I am of the...
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Feb 26, 20204 min read
God Doesn’t Want a Venmo Relationship With You
My youth pastor growing up encouraged us to offer our lives as “blank checks” to God. When you gave someone a blank check, you signed...
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Feb 24, 20203 min read
We Don’t Serve a God of Scarcity
Are you a saver or a spender? Both kinds of people look to money to provide something absolutely essential for life. Spenders depend on...
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Feb 19, 20203 min read
Kick the Bucket List
One of the conversations I most dreaded having in my life was with my mom during my senior year of college, when I had decided God was...
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