Our age is one of self-sufficiency and self-reliance, which is not a new human problem, as we will see today. We tend to react to injustice, injury, or insult by defending ourselves and protecting ourselves at all costs. We live in a country where might is right. Where we get punched, we punch back harder. Many times, […]
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Biblical and Literary Insights on Deep, Meaningful Relationships in an Individualistic Age Friendship has fallen out. We live in a culture that prizes radical individualism. C.S. Lewis says that friendship and love have no primal urge. “Without Eros none of us would have been begotten and without Affection none of us would have been reared;
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What do you say about 28 years of anything? I never wanted to attend Bible College because I never desired to be a pastor. It wasn’t because I didn’t know what a pastor’s life was like, but the opposite. Growing up in a pastor’s home, I understood the challenges and sacrifices that the call to
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Life rarely turns out like we think. Leadership is not what we assume when we sign up. The goal of success is not accomplishment but relinquishment. We are told that if we do certain things, we will gain what we desire. Leadership is about acquisition. The American church has largely put all its chips in
We live in a secular age. Some would even say it is beyond secular and post-modern; we are now decidedly post-Christian. We don’t believe in God; we believe in science. We live in a disenchanted world where every, I would argue, nearly every Act of God is explained away in scientific terms as if God
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This year, I missed my goal, which I have never liked to do. Looking back, I read some larger books and read more slowly this year. I also co-wrote two books. One will come out in August of 2024. You can pre-order it here. One of the ways God has always spoken to me is
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We live in a world of perpetual outrage. We march for war and against war. We march for women and for babies. We block streets to save whales, turtles, and the polar ice cap. Long after we are too old to march or too sick to care about the turtles, we will realize too late
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We tend to think that our current cultural moment is the worst it has ever been. We tend to think that the past was much better, and things progressively worsen daily. Likewise, we tend to over-romanticize the past and long for the “good ole days.” Eric Metaxas, writing about the English Reformer William Wilberforce, said:
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Talking about sorrow and death is something that we, as parents, do not do well. In my experience, many pastors are not much better. I have come to understand the goodness in God’s providence. As Spurgeon would say, ” I have learned to kiss the wave that threw me upon the Rock of Ages.” This
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Here is a post I wrote for Youth Worker Journal. They have an incredibly resource-rich website as well as a magazine filled with excellent articles to grow your faith and capacity as a youth worker. If you work with youth or lead family ministry the Youth Worker Journal needs to be on your radar. It
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