Christian Living

Costly Reconciliation

I recently attended a seminar on conflict and reconciliation. I don’t think of myself as someone who’s embroiled in a lot of conflict, but I’ve had my share. I’m

Managing Life Through Prayer

Sometimes a single line in a book is transformative. “I’m actually managing my life through my daily prayer time,” writes Paul Miller in his excellent book A Praying Life:  Connecting With God

Samson Society

When I first heard about Samson and the Pirate Monks through Tim Challies, I didn’t pay much attention. When I finally read the book, though, I wondered why I’d waited so

Difficult-Difficult

I learned a term from Precision Nutrition that they stole from someone else: difficult-difficult. Here’s how it works. * Difficult-easy: This is about hard work that gets you nowhere. It’s

Small Prayers

Late into November, I learned that our church plant was seriously short of money. I knew that things were tight, but I didn’t know we’d gotten so far behind. One night