As a pastor, some of the best (and most challenging) questions I get from people don’t have chapter-and-verse Bible answers. No one ever...

Pastor J.D. Greear

Recently, I’ve been listening to a series about dictators on a British podcast called Noiser. It’s a fascinating and disturbing deep...

The first (and only) time we meet Zacchaeus, he’s up a tree, trying to catch a glimpse of Jesus. Zacchaeus couldn’t have known this, but...

Giving is all over Scripture. Over and over and over again, people respond to God’s generosity toward them by (1) giving a portion of...

What would your life look like if you knew your future was secure? We see a glimpse of this kind of life in a scene from the book of...

In Exodus 13, Israel is coming out of 400 years of captivity, and Moses wants to lay out some foundational principles for them in this...

In much of the developed world, and particularly in the U.S., greed is part of the air we breathe. Our admirable Protestant work ethic...

There seems to be two extremes when it comes to how Christians view their relationship with their possessions. The first one is that God...

During the wilderness journey of the Israelites, God covered the ground every morning with bread from heaven. It was like he spread out...

Imagine you’re a Northerner living in the South doing business toward the end of the Civil War. In your business, you’ve accumulated a...

Here at the Summit, we have an audacious goal of planting 1,000 churches by 2050. (By God’s grace, we have already planted 298!) One of...

Like the Colossians, we typically express a “Jesus and …” mentality by thinking that in order to be happy and secure, we need other...

Have you ever been invited to someone’s house and they served you leftovers for dinner? You show up expecting a nice meal and instead sit...

The other day, I shared a note from one of our staff members about the way our current season of “First” has been impacting him. But this...

A lot can be lost in a single generation. Ronald Reagan famously admonished Americans that they had to teach the principles of freedom to...

In Galatians 6:7, the Apostle Paul highlights what I’ve heard called an “absolute principle” in Scripture: “For whatever a person sows he...

You remember the story where Jesus takes a little boy’s lunch of five loaves of bread and two fish—his “Levite Lunchable” or “Hebrew Hot...

Of the many questions that people perennially ask pastors, some of the most uncomfortable ones are about financial giving. Most of the...