From time to time I hear about Christian parents disowning, cutting off, or permanently shunning a son or daughter who adopts a gay lifestyle. Is that the right thing to do? Is this a requirement of biblical faithfulness?

It was 2006, I'd been a Christian for just over a year, it was my first missions trip, and it was super-awkward. It wasn't that I didn't know what happened (though I did), nor was it that I was particularly uncomfortable in front of a crowd (though I was). What made it awkward was the way I was telling the story wasn't right.

The deal is all of Christ for all your nothing.

By His grace and for His glory, as we have so freely received, may we so freely give.

Willie Nelson may be America’s most famous marijuana user. In a recent interview in Rolling Stone, he said: “It’s nice to watch [marijuana] being accepted — knowing you were right all the time about it: that it was not a killer drug. It’s a medicine.”[1] Nelson’s description of marijuana as “medicine” reflects wider confusion in […]

God’s greatest good for us is leveraging our lives for the purpose of redemption.

We live in an ego-centric society, which has saturated our churches and our faith. We have been programmed to think about ourselves. Most patterns in our lives are somehow tied to serving, “me and my needs,” “my family,” or “my country.” Think about how much of our giving is tied to that which benefits me? […]

When you offer God your best work, you will sense his smile on you as you preach.

When we find a treasure like God’s Kingdom, the cost to follow becomes insignificant.

Submitting to His story rather than trying to commandeer our own is the best way to find joy and true freedom.