Honest conversations about following Jesus in a broken world. Writings, thoughts, and explorations of faith.
Faith or works? The question causes the same trouble as asking what state of matter fire is in. A plain look at why sanctification is not a substance to possess but a process to tend, and how Paul and James stop fighting once we see it.
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Most of us have heard about fasting and quietly skipped it. It sounds like something for monks, or for people further along than we are. Here is what fasting actually is, what it is for, and how it works when you sit down to do it.
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Survey after survey turns up the same surprising answer: public speaking lands above death on the list of what we fear most. Now hold that next to the last thing Jesus asked us to do.
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This Sunday we were working through a passage when someone said, "Let me play devil's advocate here." Then someone asked a question I'd never thought about: if there's a devil's advocate, is there also a God's advocate — and what would it look like to be one?
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There are four Gospels. There is also a fifth — and it is yours. It walks around in your skin and gets read by every person God put in your orbit, whether you mean it to or not. This is about the one conversation most of us never have.
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Jesus told this parable in Luke 15:11–32. He told it to a mixed crowd — tax collectors and sinners who had come to hear Him, and Pharisees and scribes who were grumbling that He welcomed such people and ate with them. He wanted both groups to hear it. Because both sons are in the story for a reason.
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Grace in God’s Kingdom is not a limited resource that must be carefully guarded. It is something that multiplies as it moves. The forgiveness we extend, the patience we offer, and the kindness we show become small reflections of the grace we first received from God.
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One Gospel, Not Many. A first-century apostle's message to a twenty-first century church. What have we added to the gospel that doesn't belong?
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Our culture prizes independence, productivity, and self-sufficiency. Needing help is treated like failure. Being dependent is framed as weakness. And if we can’t “pull our weight,” we start to believe our weight is the problem.
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