Christian Life
The Paradox of Discipleship
What will it take for us to join with Christ in his mission of making disciples? In the the first six verses of Luke 9, Luke offers us an answer—albeit a hard and uncomfortable one. It’s an answer that disturbs our comfort and undercuts our materialism revealing the great paradox of discipleship—that to have Christ…
Jesus is Not a Vending Machine
I fear we have massively misunderstood Jesus. And by we, I first mean me. I have spent most of my life engaging Jesus as a sort of vending machine. No one loves a vending machine for being an exemplification of superb mechanical engineering. No one marvels at the precision of its delicate electronics. People love…
The Kindness of God
The past few months have been an overwhelming experience of God's kindness. Certainly, for the Christian, God's kindness to us in Christ is constant. Yet there are seasons in this life where God's kindness escapes the boundaries of fact and overflows in abundance into felt experience. This has been one of those seasons for me.…
The Source of Certainty
No one wants to chart a course in life with half assurances, especially in the Christian life. No Christian wants to take up their cross and follow Christ on the road of suffering half convinced that He is indeed the Savior King. We all long for certainty—certainty that promises to remain even as the seasons…
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