Love has countless spin-offs, but only one original.

Let’s talk about the very touchstone of what it means to follow Jesus.  It is the thing that radiates from Him and you sense it the moment you get near Him, like the heat and the light of the sun. Love.  Relentless, radiating, radical love. What a subject love is.  Our music sings its praises; [...]

We must stop trying to go it alone.

God observed at creation that it is not good for humans to be alone (Genesis 2:18).  And we observe this in our own lives. And yet too often when it comes to our own need for healing and help, we choose to go it alone.  We experience pain, and at the moment we most need [...]

Overloaded and no place to go

Left to ourselves, we accumulate. We accumulate tasks and projects we feel must get done until our minutes are filled and our priorities are neglected. We accumulate things and activities that distract us and keep us entertained or busy, but rarely centered or satisfied. Left to ourselves, we gain weight. We become loaded with worry, [...]

Read these words slowly: Our motive is what makes our work sacred

“Let every man abide in the calling wherever he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work of the ministry.  It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it. The motive is everything. Let a man sanctify the [...]

“Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.”

“We must stop using the fact that we cannot earn grace (whether for justification or for sanctification) as an excuse for not energetically seeking to receive grace.  Having been found by God, we then become seekers of ever-fuller life in him. Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort. The realities of Christian spiritual [...]