I Want to See You Be Brave
There’s something they don’t tell you about this Christianity thing when you sign up. I’m not saying it would be a deal-breaker if you knew about it on the front end, but I am saying we’d think longer...
View ArticleIsaiah 43:11-13
Isaiah 43:11-13. I read it and smile. Because the Old Testament always points to the New. The Bible isn’t 66 books – it’s one book pointing us to our need for the one God. “I, even I, am the Lord, and...
View ArticleThe Best Approach to Apologetics
Before I became a Christian, I realized something pretty quickly about the teenagers in my public high school who believed in God: they had no idea why they believed what they believed. They couldn’t...
View ArticleHow He Loves Us
“Jesus looked at him and loved him.” This sentence stole my breath yesterday. I came across it in the Gospel of Mark, where an account of Jesus’ interaction with a rich man is detailed. Mark 10:17-22...
View ArticleCheap Grace
I started reading a Bonhoeffer book last week. He wrote it in the 1930’s, but it reads as if he wrote it yesterday. Is the price that we are paying today with the collapse of organized churches...
View ArticleHope in the Struggle
I was all set to write an article about how there’s no such thing as a “good Christian.” It was going to be all about how oxymoronic that phrase is – none of us are good, that’s why we need Christ in...
View ArticleWhy I Think Judas is in Heaven
Today is Good Friday, the day Christians mark the anniversary of Jesus’ crucifixion. To focus my heart on the event, I cracked open Matthew 27 to read about the details. I got 5 verses in and stopped...
View ArticleWho We Are
In the evangelical Christian world, we often treat “witnessing” as something on our to-do list. It’s what we are supposed to do (but very few of us do it…). Never mind that non-Christians aren’t tasks...
View ArticleWhat is eternal life?
Perhaps the most famous Bible verse is John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” Jesus said this...
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