When life takes an unexpected turn, you have a choice: Take matters into your own hands or do things God’s way and wait on him to fulfill...

The following excerpt is adapted from a book I just released, Essential Christianity: The Heart of the Gospel in Ten Words. Here’s what...

The following excerpt is adapted from a book I’m releasing in just a few weeks, Essential Christianity: The Heart of the Gospel in Ten...

Jesus said the most defining characteristic of his church should be its love. Your love for each other, he told his disciples, is how the...

The greatest Christian leaders for the last two thousand years have maintained that Romans is the most important theological book ever...

We drafted this post prior to the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd—and the subsequent protests around the...

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...

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...

When Paul talks about wisdom in areas where Scripture is not clear, he makes it clear that unity is more important than uniformity. Many...

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?...

Reading Romans 16 reminds me of a tradition my family had growing up on New Year’s Day. My mom would cook corned beef and cabbage, which...

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...

The church has one mission. As Paul puts it in Romans 15:21, our job is to ensure that “… those who have never been told of him will see,...

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...

For the believer, the way you know you’ve really been released from bitterness is you weep in your enemy’s pain and rejoice in their...

During the summer at one of our Summit campuses, an Afghan woman—I’ll call her Hadiya—showed up to VBS and, with a very limited...

This may surprise you, but I’m not an expert on butterflies. I do recall a few key insights from one of my favorite books, The Very...

Many cultural Christians think church is a good thing, but they are not committed. They are not involved in any ministry. They don’t...

A friend of mine was diagnosed with a very serious and deadly form of cancer. It looks like it may rob him of some of the best years of...

The Apostle Paul says that at the core of all our sin is idolatry. He didn’t just mean bowing down to statues (though that counts)....