There’s a reason I struggle with discipleship and faithful living. It’s because kingdom thinking is so strikingly different from the ways of our culture. Being a Christian really does require us to be...  Read More

There’s a lot you can read these days on how to live your life. Prosperity, fitness, leisure, and power are all big-money industries, with books and seminars and trainers and life coaches. Many of my ...  Read More

Sometimes scripture is so remarkable in its clarity that it can, in a single well-drafted sentence, completely simplify something that I make too complicated. 1 Peter 2:17 is just such a sentence: “Sh...  Read More

Luke 5 give an interesting review of the three ways Jews responded when they encountered Jesus.In verse, after Jesus provided fish for the fishermen, this was Peter’s reaction: “When Simon Peter saw t...  Read More

There are a lot of different things said about God these days, ranging from “He doesn’t exist,” to “He’s going to take everyone to heaven.” Most of them are obviously wrong, but sometimes it’s hard to...  Read More