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You Were Made for Communion, Not Consumption
I picked up my phone again this morning before I'd even prayed. I do that more than I'd like to admit. And when I actually stopped to ask what I was reaching for, it was never really information, or entertainment, or news. Something underneath all of it was reaching...
Sons, Not Successors
There's something in most of us that wants to be chosen, not for who our parents were, but for who we've actually become. I spent the better part of a year studying how churches hand leadership from one generation to the next: the theory, the case studies, and the...
God’s Answer to Babel
God's Answer to Babel Genesis 11 opens with a sentence that sounds almost contemporary once you translate it into modern terms: 'Let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves' (Genesis 11:4). Strip away the...
Does “Abba” Really Mean “Daddy”?
You've probably heard it in a sermon or a worship song at some point: "Abba means Daddy." I've heard it preached with real emotion, and I understand exactly why it caught on. It's a beautiful, intimate image, and it points toward something true. But I want to walk you...
Not a Force, But a Friend
He is not a mere force. He is not an abstract energy or impersonal essence, though later Church tradition, especially in the East, would come to speak of what theologians called the "energies of the Spirit," the ways His presence and power reach us without our ever...
In Christ Is Reality
"In Christ is Reality" isn't just a name I picked because it sounded good. It's how I'd actually describe my own life, if I had to be honest about it. I want to explain what I mean by that. Then I want to tell you about a season, and later a single afternoon, that...
1 Story – 2 Authors | Part 1
Alright, let's do this. I've been putting this off for years..There's a difference between carrying a story and actually setting it down somewhere, and I've been carrying mine for longer than I'd like to admit. I've always believed that every person carries a story...