You don't need to find yourself; you need to find Christ. Then he'll show you who you really are.

You are who God says you are -- but, then, how do you live in light of that truth? Functionally, what does it look like to do the Christian life day by day when other identity scripts try to work their way into your heart and mind?

You are not what others think of you -- or even what you think of yourself. Your only true and enduring identity comes from what God says is true of you in Christ. So what does he say?

If you found yourself seeking your identity in something other than Christ, how would you change if you wanted to? How could you stop living off one script (Traditional or Modern) and start living off another (the Gospel)?

Your self-made, culturally-conditioned identity will motivate you with a deadly combination of duty and desire. You will live for the honor of being a successful conformist or the freedom of being an autonomous non-conformist. But both the...

Everyone wants to know they have value, worth, significance. And by default, we all seek that sense of identity in what we do, what we have, and what we desire. Unwittingly, we end up being controlled by the thing that provides the most powerful dose...

"True grace" implies that there's a counterfeit, a cheap and worthless substitution. What is true grace, why does it matter, and how do we live in light of it?

Who does Christ, the Chief Shepherd, want leading his church and how does he want them to lead? How does the church respond, in kind, to such leadership?

Suffering is a fact of life. You will not eliminate suffering by choosing to follow Jesus; in fact, you may actually suffer more. The question is how can you learn to suffer well?

It's hard to forgive sometimes. It's hard to show hospitality to certain kinds of people. It's hard to serve all the needs around us. So how can we? What if seeing ourselves simply as stewards of God's grace was the key to loving the people God...