Christian Living

You Can’t Quit This

I told someone the other day that I’m discouraged as a church planter less than 10% of the time, which, it turns out, isn’t a bad ratio. But sometimes in that

The Tenets of Post-Christian Spirituality

Derek L. Worthington describes the three tenets of post-Christian spirituality in his book The Call of Jesus: * a distant God — remote, detached, and uninvolved with our lives; * “me” as a functional god, with

The Slow, Hard Work of Making Disciples

I’ve been thinking a lot about what Paul wrote in 2 Timothy 2:1-7: You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have

Fall to the Ground

I attended a conference years ago that changed my life, just not the way that it was supposed to. The conference was on creating a turnaround church. Shortly afterwards, I attended another conference

Tested

The night before he was crucified, Jesus knew that he was about to be betrayed and arrested. It was an intense period of testing for both Jesus and the disciples. In Luke’s