Pastors

It seems to me that when we talk about being a good Berean we’re usually thinking about assessing the claims of others that are brought before us. And we do need to be Bereans when it comes to the truth claims of others.

I haven’t always been a family devotion guy. It’s not because I didn’t want or aspire to be; I did. But we went a long time as a family before pulling the trigger and trying to integrate this practice into the regular rhythm of our family life.

Organizations and teams that lack trust are unable to engage in unfiltered and passionate disagreement around the mission of the organization.

Leadership is lonely in some ways. With every step in leadership we make comes the inevitable increase in loneliness. The higher we climb in leadership, the more responsibilities we get, the lonelier we become.

Jesus offers his followers the kind of life that results in rest and peace. Yet Christians are thrown from crisis to crisis as if...

Do you make a practice of enjoying the presence of Jesus? Just as 2,000 years ago, Jesus welcomed sinners, he still welcomes sinners like us into his presence by his Spirit.

Loving your neighbor as yourself is, for good reason, a well-known biblical charge. But we often ask, as does the lawyer interrogating Jesus in the passage where this mandate appears: Who is my neighbor? 

For decades, the church—and more specifically youth leaders—have been challenged to communicate to the next generation. Yet, generations come and go, and it seems that they are not adequately reached, won or discipled to become Christ followers.