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God’s grace to us is an invitation to be amazing. It’s our chance to extend to others what God has freely extended to us. But while most of us are full of something . . . it’s usually not grace. So what are you full of? And what would it take for you to give … Continue reading "The Unsettling Solution for Just About Everything, part 3: Do You See What I See?"

The kingdom of God is characterized by unsettling generosity —the kind of generosity that gives the undeserving what they don’t deserve and regardless of how unright we’ve been, makes us right with God. So what do we do when we’re faced with this math that doesn’t add up? And how do we respond to this … Continue reading "The Unsettling Solution for Just About Everything, part 2: Don’t Do The Math"

There is an unsettling solution for just about everything, and we can sum it up in one word. Grace. It’s the undeserved, unearned, unearnable favor that Jesus came to offer us. So why wouldn’t we want Christianity to be true? And where should you start if it’s a word that was never part of the … Continue reading "The Unsettling Solution for Just About Everything, part 1: Undeserveable"

Two brothers from London discover how they can use their professions to make a difference among some of the poorest and most forgotten people in the world. November 29, 2020

The amazing story of the business family who funded the YouVersion Bible app and changed the way that hundreds of million of people experience God’s word. November 22, 2020

Most of the emotional stuff we cover up and refuse to deal with revolves around loss. We all struggle with expectations that went unmet, goals we failed to achieve, or dreams that were broken. How we handle our loss matters. It impacts the quality of our lives. If we bury those negative emotions alive, they … Continue reading "It’s Fine, part 3: Good Grief"

Establishing healthy habits will benefit the relationships you care most about. Others will reap from the emotional habits you sow. November 8, 2020

Many of us learned from an early age to hide what we were feeling from other people. We got the message that showing our emotions made us look weak. In time, we became so skilled at hiding what we feel, we even learned to hide our emotions from ourselves. But hiding isn’t a sign of … Continue reading "It’s Fine, part 1: Emotional Hygiene"

The Bible did not create Christianity. Christianity is the result of an event (the resurrection) that created a movement (the church) that produced sacred and reliable texts that were collected and bound into a book (the Bible). But how do we approach not being at peace with everything we read in the Bible? Paul—the apostle, … Continue reading "The Bible for Grown-ups, part 4: For The World"

The Old Testament chronicles God’s redemptive, sequential activity in history. It’s a fabulous, gritty, epic history of the Hebrew people in which, over and over, Israel is reminded that they are a divine means to an end. So, maybe instead of seeing the Old Testament as a spiritual guidebook or a storyline that needs to … Continue reading "The Bible for Grown-ups, part 3: The Old Testament"