Do you ever feel like your Christian life is mostly a matter of duty? You might be doing all of the right things—but it’s coming from a...

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...

Grace confuses and offends religious people because people who have worked hard and kept the rules don’t like it when others who have...

The Reverend Willy Jenkins Jr. grew up in Mississippi under the hardship of Jim Crow. He worked for the ethnic integration of public...

Wisdom for Your Weekend is your regular installment of what we’ve been reading (and watching) around the web. Presented to you by Chris...

Certain people in life mystify me. For instance, there is a sizable portion of our population who, when given a choice between unsweet...

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...

One of my favorite books is the Select Letters of John Newton. Newton is most famous for writing “Amazing Grace,” but he also pastored a...

We tend to see people in categories: the successful and the unsuccessful, the intelligent and the dull, the beautiful and the ugly, the...

On the surface, the parable of the wicked tenants (Matthew 21:33-46) looks rather harsh. It’s a short story, but the fact that it’s...

In the last statement of the parable of the tenants and the vineyard, Jesus told the Jewish leaders something that, in their...

Paul wrote to the Galatian church to show them, among other things, that a lot of barriers between people exist because we try to justify...

We tend to think of Solomon as the man who, though he was the wisest man in the world, fell because he was some kind of a sex addict. I...

In the story of the Good Samaritan, there comes a point where Jesus turns the religious man’s question on its head. The conversation...