Maintaining healthy relationships is a priority in all areas of life, but our ministry world requires special attention. Ultimately, we spend about a third of our lives working, which means we spend a third of our days with co-workers. That’s a significant amount of time, so we want the atmosphere to be positive and productive for everyone.…
Discipleship that doesn’t trigger a visceral physical reaction or evoke emotion in young people won’t get past their starting gate. Current research is proving that unless we somehow get access to the brain’s emotional center, triggering the area responsible for the decisions young people make, all we’re really doing is dispensing data that’s quickly filed away in the brain’s warehouse, where it gathers dust.…
At the end of a novel, it’s helpful to see how a character’s past impacts their present. Moments of narrative foreshadowing are revealed and the ending hopefully makes sense. Is it the same with your own personal story? What does it take to slow down and see the narrative foreshadowing Jesus is using to make you who you are and will become?…
Fight Club (the 1999 cult classic film) tells the story of two bored men searching for meaning and identity, and finding it in underground bare-knuckle brawls. The film is brutal, violent, and sorta/kinda serves as a metaphor for the life Jesus calls us into.…
“They got more than me.” “Why do they get to and I don’t?” “That’s not fair.” These are phrases we’ve all used when comparing ourselves to siblings or friends, but if we’re honest, could they also describe our attitude toward Jesus when things don’t seem equal?…
Redemption is mostly seen in a positive light, especially when talked about in the context of a relationship with Jesus. But when you slow down to look at the cost, the weight, and pain that comes with the process, does redemption turn into something that’s downright terrible?…
You know what we can’t get enough of? Memes. Here are three of my faves. You know what’s too much of a good thing? Friendships that are primarily dependent on a mutual exchange of funny memes. I was scrolling through Instagram and this post stopped me in my tracks.…
Put your paws up if you’ve ever had this question: What do (ahem) Lady Gaga and God have in common? No really…there is more here than you might think—for example: Lady Gaga believes in God: “It doesn’t matter if you love him, or capital H-I-M.”…
Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)… Yeah, I could use a dream or a genie or a wish To go back to a place much simpler than this.…
Teen attitudes are shaped by, and steeped in, the relativistic postmodern cultural landscape, which reflects a mindset that snubs absolute truth in favor of subjective feelings. Here, gambling is viewed not so much as a sin – as with the Las Vegas Sin City label – but as a matter of personal preference and choice.Todays…
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