What’s something you hope to do before your life is over? Our staff is reading Legacy Letters together (which I highly recommend!). We just finished the chapter on bucket lists. As we went around the room, I was fascinated by the answers coming from our team. They included riding in a hot air balloon, visiting… Continue reading What’s on Your Bucket List?
There is a verse in Judges that should stop every Christian parent, grandparent, and church member cold. "And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know the LORD or the work that he had done for Israel." (Judges 2:10) Read that again slowly.… Continue reading Will The Next Generation Know the Lord?
“I always feel humble as long as everyone does what I want.” On Saturday, I heard one of my favorite preachers bring a challenging word about humility from Philippians 2. It was challenging because humility is hard. And my friend Neil, preaching to a room full of men, brought us face to face with the… Continue reading “I’m Humble as Long as Everyone Does What I Want”: A Lesson from Philippians 2
When I was about four years old, I went through a stretch of serious separation anxiety. My family had moved a few times, and I became terrified my parents were going to leave me behind. One day I came home to find movers carrying our couch out the door—we’d sold it—and, convinced this meant my… Continue reading When God Makes You Wait
Most temptation does not feel like rebellion. It feels reasonable. It sounds like: I deserve this. This will make me happy. God’s way is unnecessarily restrictive. Everyone else seems to think this is fine. I know what the Bible says, but my situation is different. That is why temptation can be so difficult to recognize.… Continue reading The Question Behind Every Temptation
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