Can someone who can’t see, hear, or talk be “successful in ministry”? One of the most effective evangelists I've ever met was a child who …
Archives for May 2013
Comfortable Sensibilities
Consider the well-meant evangelical exhortation to “invite Jesus into your heart.” I assume this imagery comes from Revelation 3:20 (“I am …
having your identity reconstructed
You need to know God's statements and images about who you are, not self-produced positive statements or the lies being told to you by your …
Why You Can’t See Your Biggest Flaws
In my last article, I wrote about the 18th-century pastor John Newton, who showed us that most Christians live with obvious character flaws …
Anger
Introduction: Few things destroy people faster or more completely than anger. It crushes those it is unleashed upon and it shatters the …
The Sufficiency of Scripture For Counseling
This book is a collection of true accounts about real people. The men and women featured here received hope, peace, joy, and dramatic change …
Does Your Church Have a Mission?
So what is the mission of your church? Can you articulate it? Does it instill passion in you that causes you to live your life differently? …
Take Your Grief To God
In Mattew 5:4 Jesus says, "Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.'' Grief and mourning are a pivotal part of restoration. …
Great is Thy Faithfulness
I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his wrath; he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light; surely …
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