Our First Job
We tend to focus on roles, skills, and techniques. They’re important, but they’re not our first job. Our first job is to cultivate a heart that’s seeking after God.
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Christian Living
Do You Want to Be Somebody?
“Do you want to be somebody?”
You wouldn’t expect this to be the title of a chapter in a book on preaching. Yet it is in the book On Preaching by H.
Lose Everything for Jesus When You Have Little to Lose
On May 1, 1989, I moved all of my worldly possessions into the manse of Runnymede Baptist in Toronto. It only took about five minutes and a few trips from the trunk of
Good Grief
When the Bible contradicts me, it’s time to sit up and take notice. The problem is never the Bible. The problem is always with me.
I noticed this recently when I read
Clean or Abundant
Proverbs 14:4 gives us a stark choice:
Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean,
but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox.
I’ll be honest. I want