Articles for Outreach & Missions

I believe people are struggling today to find the meaning of life because greater prosperity and more personalized technology have crowded out other options—like Christianity.

More important than reaching your dreams or even fulfilling your calling. Everything you do in life flows from everything you are in Christ.

Talk to any church leader, and they’ll tell you it feels more challenging than ever to get people to come to church on a Sunday.

A righteous Judge doesn’t deliver double punishment. God did not punish His Son for our sins and then punish the unbelieving sinner for the same sins.

Real transformation is a slow-cook process, especially for narcissists and abusers. They are hidden from their true selves and prone to re-configure their masks in order to avoid the pain of self-confrontation.

However, like precarious thorns on the stem of a beautiful rose, the fullness of the holidays can also threaten our spiritual, emotional and relational equilibrium in unique ways.

I’d like to offer some thoughts on how controversial and heated topics can become a pathway into empathy, and lead to better public discourse.

People who wouldn’t come some other time of the year show up at Christmas. And we have a great opportunity to tell them about Jesus and to encourage them to come back to church. You can use Christmas services to help your members sense that they are a part of something big and exciting.