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Apr 3, 20233 min read
Upgrade to the Platinum Rule
Most of us live according to the “natural rule” or “flesh rule”: Do unto others as they have done unto you. This is as instinctive as...
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Aug 8, 20222 min read
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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Feb 7, 20223 min read
Is Money Evil?
Money always competes with God for first place in our hearts. It’s right there in Matthew 6:24, “You cannot serve both God and money”...
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Nov 30, 20202 min read
Jesus Wants the Rose
When I was a young Christian, it was very popular for youth groups to attend True Love Waits rallies every summer, where thousands of...
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Sep 7, 20203 min read
Sex Is Not the Best Part of Life
Our culture says sex is an essential part of life. Not just good, but literally essential. As in, you simply cannot be happy without it....
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Aug 13, 20203 min read
Don’t Get Through Your Singleness; Leverage It.
Those whom God has called to singleness—whether for a season or for their whole life—he will supply with all the necessary graces to live...
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May 28, 20202 min read
How Money Makes You Blind
In one of Jesus’ core teachings on money, he says, “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full...
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Apr 27, 20203 min read
Come and See. Then Go and Tell.
The evidence for the resurrection is clear for all who want to see it. When the angel told the women going to visit the tomb, “He is not...
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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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Apr 16, 20202 min read
In Christ, You Have Everything You Need for Today
For many people, this is the first time in our lives we have been forced to take life literally one day at a time—not by choice but...
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Apr 13, 20203 min read
What Good News Do We Have in the Midst of COVID-19?
There is an old story about a lumberjack preparing to cut down several trees in a mountain forest. As he began, he noticed a beautiful...
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Apr 9, 20203 min read
New Troubles Are Met With New Mercies
I don’t know about you, but when I read, “Don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough...
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Apr 7, 20203 min read
Nothing Is Certain Anymore—Nothing, That Is, But God’s Love
It goes without saying that this season has brought on for many of us a new set of worries: How long will we be dealing with COVID-19?...
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Apr 2, 20203 min read
How to Proclaim Hope in the Shadow of Death
What’s the one thing people are looking for right now? (Well, other than toilet paper and face masks.) It’s hope. Yet Jesus tells us in...
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Mar 25, 20202 min read
Love Your Neighbor: Stay at Home
On the heels of disastrous events, the gospel has unprecedented opportunity. When God has done the work of shaking their foundations,...
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Mar 23, 20204 min read
Where to Look When Everything Seems Uncertain
We are living in upside-down days. Jesus talked about how crises like the one we’re in will characterize the last days: “As he sat on the...
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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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Jan 8, 20203 min read
Stop Clinging to Confederate Currency
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...
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Aug 27, 20185 min read
Five Responses to the Empty Tomb
It’s not hard to find claims from contemporary, even secular, scientists and history professors that Jesus did, in fact, rise from the...
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Aug 15, 20183 min read
Because of the Empty Tomb
On the third day after Jesus’ crucifixion, a group of women went to his tomb. Instead of finding a dead body guarded by strong Roman...
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