Only one thing is worse than producing no fruit: producing bad fruit.
Many of my peers participated in Lenten fasts… even though they also came from evangelical or other Protestant denominations.
God expects us to be world changers, to live lives that matter, to make someone or something different, ensuring that the world is a better place because we lived here.
By Barry C.
We think of salvation as the moment of crossing a threshold, and we let people assume this was the point of it all, that the forgiveness of sins is primarily what the gospel is about, when really, it’s about the party
Prayer is one of the great tenets of Christian life, but don’t let the importance of it become restrictive.
Praying is difficult.
A life verse can help us move on from our old stories of failure and defeat by replacing the lies we’ve believed about ourselves with God’s truth.
Often it seems like Christmas is about what is under the tree rather than who was born in a manger. It can be a little overwhelming.
The early church passed on the names of the martyrs and spoke them out loud as part of the Cloud. The world needs to hear these names, famous or not. They deserve it. We deserve it.
If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
It’s not a matter of talking about salt and light nearly as much as actually being salt and light. It’s a lifestyle that forgoes condemning and criticizing the world and chooses to bless it instead.
