SELF-ASSURED OR FEARFUL? Are you a self-assured risk taker? Or are you passive and fearful? These seem like opposing traits. But according to the Gospels, Peter was all of these things—sometimes all within a single day. Peter’s waffling tendencies seem like the stuff...
Wait—stop reading. Look up from this post and fasten your eyes on something else and then come back to your reading. Do you see that in one very important sense, that’s all that God has required of you? The shifting of your eyes from this post to another object...
The Latin word sola means “alone” or “only.” The Five Solas are five Latin phrases (or slogans) that emerged during the Protestant Reformation and that summarize the Reformers’ basic theological convictions on what they believed to be the...
Christian theology is about the gospel, which is focused on who Jesus is and what he said and did. Jesus is the hero of history and the centerpiece of the entire Bible. God made us to worship him. He was our Father, living and walking among us, giving us everything we...
The popularity of missional community is rising among evangelicals, and yet, the American church is nowhere near a missional tipping point. I’ve faced missional highs and missional lows. Along the way, I’ve considered a number of things that are absolutely necessary...