Several years ago during my first year as a student pastor, I met a man for coffee who would later become a mentor. As I anxiously awaited our first meeting, I played out several different scenarios of how…
We are all afflicted with a sinful will that tells us we can be, and should be, the masters of our own destinies. It is the greatest lie we believe, and Adam and Eve believed it even when…
We live in a culture that loves to obsess over various catastrophes. In Part 1 of this series, we discussed Lionel Shriver’s article, Why Catastrophising is My Idea of a Good Time, and her suggestion that our obsession…
The reason we so often fear the catastrophes around us is because we doubt the certainty of salvation promised by grace alone through faith alone.
We all know the parable of the Prodigal Son. Two brothers, vastly different in temperament and behavior, who share the same father. One brother is notoriously bad and dominates the plot line, while the other is but a…
There’s a good chance that the flight attendant on your next United Airlines flight might squawk something like, “In case of an emergency, your seat cushion may be used as a YouTube filming platform.” By now, we’ve all…
Historian David Brooks, when asked about NBC News anchor Brian Williams’ fall from grace, said: “It speaks to a couple of truths. The one is that no amount of public success is satisfying. You can have all the…
Every now and then we take our regular worship service and change things up. I give our band a night off to thank them for their hard work and to create an environment that doesn’t become dependent on…
Parents and Pastors: We Cannot Afford to Stay Silent to Our Teens By Kendal Conner As the tragic events of our nation and world have unfolded over the past few months, I have wrestled with this question: “How…
