We pour into our churches on Sundays, lock the doors, and sell sweets to one another. The sugar high exhilarates but by the parking lot the high subsides to a new low and the energy turns to lethargy. What’s worse is that our neighbors watch us come out looking more infirm than when we went …
New and UNimproved Christian Variants
As we’ve discovered in the last few years, viruses often morph into any number of variants. Some are less virulent than the original disease, while others can be even more deadly. Some variants, like Omicron and Delta, while less likely to land you in a hospital bed breathing through a ventilator, are more contagious than …
Learning the Language
“Go and make disciples of all nations . . . teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.” (Matthew 28:19-20) Think of disciple making in terms of learning a language. As brilliant as they both are, my two four-year-old granddaughters don’t need English grammar lessons quite yet. The definitions and proper use of indirect …
How To Inherit The Earth
How To Inherit The Earth: Submitting Ourselves to a Servant Savior by Scott Bessenecker, the Associate Director for Missions for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, is simply the best book I’ve read in years on spiritual influence. I wish I had understood and practiced the things that he unpacks in this small book about the ways of …
The Vegetable Garden Church (A Yelp Post)
“I grew up in a Candy Store Church where we consumed spiritual candy to obesity and competed with other churches of similar ilk. For sure, there were many things at my CSC that commended itself, but I found that we were only growing in girth and not so much in God. My fondness for sweets …
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