Pastors

When most leaders work on strategic plans and initiatives, they tend to jump headfirst into creation mode. Unfortunately, developing a new strategy before determining the current reality is a recipe for problems.

I have often heard a teaching – which I have come to understand as unbiblical and very destructive – that being a Christian and struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts aren’t supposed to go together.

How can you be a high achiever and keep a good work/life balance? As I’ve reflected on what helps me accomplish so much, I came up with some thoughts as to how I’m able to maintain productivity in a healthy way.

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“Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink” (Matt. 6:25). My father never tired of quoting this text to me when I was a boy. Yet he did take thought for the future.

What if the prodigal returns to a place ruled not by the father, but by older brothers filled with judgment or manipulation?

We cannot anticipate or desire what we cannot imagine. That’s why, I believe, God has given us glimpses of Heaven in the Bible—to fire up our imagination and kindle a desire for Heaven in our hearts.

“In those days Israel had no king; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” And what was “right in their eyes” was patently horrific. It seemed so appealing at the beginning, to define God how they wanted him to be. But it turned out to be hell on earth--that's why we need a savior.