The reality of suffering Part one of this blog focused on persevering through our own suffering. Part two will focus on how to love others well when they are suffering. This topic is important because part of our discipleship involves persevering and helping others to...
Why do we suffer? Have you ever had a time in your life that was really hard and painful? If you live on this earth, then your answer is probably YES. No matter one’s personality, ethnicity, culture, family dynamics, religion, or socioeconomic status, we ALL have...
THE NECESSITY OF UNITY “In necessary things unity; in uncertain things liberty; in all things charity” – Marco Antonio de Dominis, 1617 Humans like their tribes. We feel safe, accepted, and have a sense of belonging when we know who is on our team. This has never been...
Beware of basking in self-satisfaction Self-satisfaction is downright dangerous, and yet we’re all prone to it. We can get to feeling spiritually self-content, believing that since we’re a “good enough” Christian for most churches, God is satisfied with our “good...
THINK OF THE BIBLE AS FOOD I love how C. S. Lewis said it: “God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the...
Surrender to Christ seriously means surrender. If you’re a Christian, that means you surrendered your life to Christ. Surrender means you literally die to yourself - your nature, your wants, your will, and you begin to live for Christ. Your surrender to Christ was day...
NO WOMAN IS AN ISLAND We just can’t do the Jesus thing alone. This means that community is not an optional part of our spiritual lives. We cannot obey all the “one anothers” in Scripture without “others.” But there is an aspect of community that is essential for...