I took my seat as the service started, going through the mental checklist, making sure I prepared. Then my worship leader began the song, “God is Able" . . .

The men and women in college and seminary are studying during an ongoing war–a spiritual war–and often the call of the front lines of full time ministry service in contrast to the present semesterly demands strains one to question if he is really in the right place pursing the right things.

The largest potential missionary force lays outside the US and Canada; it is ripe for partnership and in need of funding.

Let your academic study and writing become a spiritual discipline through which you are able to behold the wonders of our God. 

Our attempts to improve Christian worship may, in fact, distract from it. Often, less actually is more. There can be a beauty in simplicity.

Imagine what could happen if your church started sending overseas those members who love and serve the church best.

Over the past decade, I’ve witnessed in others—and, unfortunately, in myself—three parental motivations to avoid. Like weeds that force their way through the best-cultivated garden or thickest concrete, these motivations seem stubborn, always reappearing; resilient, always resurfacing.

There is no such thing as a pastor who knows only the burden of leadership or only the sweat of service.

Don’t let gospel-centeredness become a mere measuring stick of a new set of corporation-like metrics.