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A Case for Public Discipleship
What we talk about and the words we use when we approach discipleship are important. If the direction of our discipleship is unclear or incomplete, that shortcoming will affect our pursuit of the image...
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3 Lessons from John L. Girardeau for Crossing Divides
Editor: In our Family History Series we are seeking to understand how Christians of the past have pursued making disciples. We want to connect the church’s current efforts to make, mature, and multiply...
View Article3 Reasons to Love Halloween
I love Halloween. It’s true. Usually, I still dress up. My children love to put on costumes and collect candy from our neighbors. Often times we have people over, or are invited to someone’s house...
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Pursuing Treasures in Heaven
A year ago, I moved from Austin, TX and took a “cush” job in San Francisco. As a young, single dude with a good job in an unbelievably exciting city in the most beautiful region of the US, the world...
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The Strange Silence
After the SCOTUS decision on same-sex marriage, evangelicals responded in droves through social media, sermons, and press releases. Our compulsion to respond is not surprising given core theological...
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Fight or Flight? Engaging Opposition in Social Media
In 2006, Jack Dorsey and his peers put their heads together to create what we now know as Twitter. Dorsey, years later, shared why the name made perfect sense for their product: [W]e came across the...
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Open-Handed Apologetics
OS Guinness believes that having truth is not good enough. He believes that simply “sharing the gospel” or presenting airtight arguments for God will not convince people to have faith in Jesus. He says...
View Article4 Considerations for Making Friends
God has given me the gift of being friends with outsiders. I am not sure why, but when I move to a new place or visit a new place it seems as though God sends people to me so that...
View ArticleIt is Finished
After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), “I thirst.” A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and...
View ArticleLonging for My Real Home
After two years of focused theological study I realized my soul needed a good story. It’s not that I don’t love reading theology, but during this season I wanted something different to stir my heart. I...
View ArticleThe Reluctant Missionary
When my wife Emily and I moved to Mexico, I self-identified as a reluctant missionary; God called us to the mission field, but I didn’t go singing like one of the astronauts in the movie Armageddon....
View Article4 Experiences Young People Need to Flourish
The transition from high school into adulthood is bumpier and more confusing than at any other time in history. I remember a quiet moment the night after my high school graduation thinking, “What in...
View Article6 Ways to Influence a Culture of Evangelism
Everyone follows the people they look up to. Just recently I had a handful of families over for lunch. It was joyful chaos with crowded rooms and team-work food preparation. If you watched, you could...
View Article5 Ways to Cultivate a Multiplying Culture
You can’t force multiplication to happen, but you can cultivate an environment where multiplication can happen. As a leader, you can create a culture where sending people out is expected, celebrated,...
View ArticleThe Joy and Sorrow of Parenting
Forty-eight hours ago I was plagued by the thought, “I am a bad mom.” That complete sentence ran through my mind—uninvited and multiple times throughout the evening. I tried to push the thought out of...
View ArticleJoyful Perseverance in a Hard Cultural Soil
One story is told of a medical missionary who went to reach a tribal people in a remote area of the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1912. After seventeen years of laboring in the mission field, he went...
View ArticleTragedy, Violence, and Human Dignity
Over the last several weeks news headlines have carried pronouncements of unspeakable tragedy and carnage. Well-known singer Christina Grimmie was senselessly murdered in Orlando. Then, just a day...
View ArticleReclaiming Faith Formation
When I first came to faith in Jesus, I floundered. I was 18, I had just started college, I came out of a family that largely didn’t discuss issues of faith, and the only exposure to a community of...
View ArticleGetting Off the Cul-de-sac
I recently found myself in a conversation with a woman who is a staff member at a Christian summer camp. From what she told me, they do a lot of great things at this summer camp. But our conversation...
View ArticleThe Morning After the Election
As a white, educated, and west-coast city dweller I’ve been isolated from some of the pain and fears of many others. I want to spend more time listening. This election hasn’t created a division; it has...
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