After Satan’s Temptations, What Do You Do? Can You Do Better?
We often go directly from stimulus to reaction, but we can learn proactive approaches we can take to respond to temptation with a little bit of time and practice.
Category: Faith
The Power of Home-Centered Gospel Learning
When most people think of worship, it’s something happening in a chapel or church building. A deeper appreciation of worship that can also happen at home has been transformative for many families
Can Our Different Perspectives on Jesus Be a Strength?
Our inclination in a conflicted America is to see any significant difference as a potential threat. The New Testament can remind us not to overlook the value of competing views on even the most important question of all.
Why Jesus?
Do we really need to be saved? That’s a question we’re hearing from more and more people. And it’s an important one to take seriously as we enter a brand new year.
Living as the Angels Do
Even with so much suffering around us, I rejoice to have witnessed much suffering tangibly relieved by real-life, creative ministries to the poor. What more is still possible?
Angels All Around Us
A Christmas present from our team to the many who are grieving the loss of a loved one this holiday season. May you rejoice to know what is coming and feel peace at what is already here.
What Shall We Give?
Would we be willing to give up our ideas this Christmas? Or is it too hard to believe in a God that asks hard things of us—unpopular things and countercultural things?
Church Finances and the Doubting Soul
Is there a dollar amount of donations to the poor sufficient to allay concerns about how the faith spends its money?
Why Jesus As An Unborn Baby Matters
We don’t often speak of the short period when Jesus was an unborn baby Himself. Maybe we should?
Culture War Comes to Church
With a cultural war raging around us, perhaps it shouldn’t surprise us to see it leaking now and then into our congregations and classes. But that doesn’t make it any easier to know how to respond.
Why did God Punish Ancient Israel?
It wasn’t just apathy or failure to perform religious ceremonies for which ancient Israel faced God’s judgments. It was also what they failed to do for each other.
Disciples, Activists & the Drama Triangle
Ahmad Corbitt’s October 2022 talk to military chaplains challenged not just secular-minded activists, but also a common set of stories sometimes held by believing and sustaining church members.
