Tankers and Tugboats: Training for Transformation
Whether it’s physical, intellectual, musical, or spiritual, genuine transformation requires incremental training. Bump, bump, bump.
By the Grace: Our Example to the World
This isn’t about beating ourselves up, but beating our pride back and down to where it belongs. When sincere humility meets bold transparency the result is inspiring.
Light Affliction: Taking Jesus to the World
We’re called to a holy life, not an easy life. So let’s face the painful fact that pain is part of the process of a good fight!
What possible reason could this centurion have for being the first to declare that Jesus was “the Son of God” after His death?
Every little thing you do reveals, communicates, and strengthens who you are. And every little thing drives you toward wanting to put goodness and love in your heart.
Christian fellowship means being a part of others’ lives through prayer, participation, and relationship. And our name—who we are to others—is an important part of fellowship.
Like the “I do’s” at a wedding, our Amen (truly!) is an affirmation of truth and a vow of trust, to live out what we pray about.
We need to examine this word–forever–all by itself, because it’s a modifier that applies profound power and eternal glory to each line before it.
Speaking out praise, whether privately or publicly, produces freedom and liberation and emancipation from the chains of pride that restrain and restrict so deep inside.