How to Avoid Anger Overload in the Digital Age
Are humans situated in specific contexts meant to bear the weight of a world’s worth of grief and outrage?
Three Reasons Church Unity is Important
A unified church is one of the strongest evidences of the truth of the gospel.
What if We Applied “For Better or Worse” to Church Commitment?
The church as a bride isn’t just a random, pleasant metaphor in Scripture. It’s of profound theological importance.
Discipleship Is Not Consumer-Friendly
Churches that attempt to accommodate the moving-target needs of individual “spiritual quests” are not doing anyone a favor.
Five Likely Losses from Taking Up Your Cross
Every taking-up-our-cross loss that we endure is worth it. For Christ and for us in him, weakness, suffering, and loss are not the end of the story.
Heresy Often Begins with Boredom
We should see orthodoxy as beautiful because it is bigger than us. It came before us and will be there after we’re gone.
Sing Your Heart Out at Church (Even If You Hate the Music)
Putting aside preferences and embracing common, unified, God-centered worship is part of what it means to follow Jesus together.
Lordship is Not Legalism
What does countercultural Christianity look like in America today?
Learn to Love Your Uncomfortable Church
How do we stick with our uncomfortable church long enough to see this growth happen? How can we endure—no, learn to love—our uncomfortable church in spite of its frustrating imperfections?
8 Ways to Battle Comfort Idolatry
One of Christianity’s greatest idolatries today is also one of the most subtle and insidious: the idolatry of comfort.