Love is Still Supreme
The most important thing in the Christian life and ministry is not knowledge, zeal, or giftedness. It is love. Without love, Paul says, we are…
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The most important thing in the Christian life and ministry is not knowledge, zeal, or giftedness. It is love. Without love, Paul says, we are…
Read articleThe way of Peter will always be more attractive to the flesh than the way of Jesus. In a culture that despises any sign of weakness, cutting our enemy down feels much more productive than trying to heal…
Read articleFiction We love fiction, don’t we? We love to see how in the middle of the fight between good and evil, when evil seems to…
Read articleIt’s at this time of year that we celebrate the Incarnation of Jesus, or to put it another way: the coming of God to earth…
Read articleMy start in ministry was unexpected. I’m the son of a church-planting pastor. My childhood memories consist of awkward church people, financial struggles and a…
Read articleAt the end of one of the episodes of the TV miniseries, Band of Brothers, as Easy Company was marching into the Ardennes Forest, for…
Read articleChristmas time is often marked by cards with perfect family pictures on the cover. Everyone smiling, everyone wearing cute Christmas sweaters. The perfect family on…
Read articleThere is a bridge in Paris that joins the Louvre on the right bank of the Seine River with the Academy of Les Beaux Arts…
Read article“Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love” (1 Corinthians…
Read articleThere is no such thing as the perfect church. Someone once said you’ll never find the perfect church–and if you do, don’t start attending there…
Read article“Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.” —Jim Elliot (1927-1956), martyred for sharing the love of Christ. In…
Read articleI have known loneliness in my life. When I first started to follow Jesus, I was 24 years old. Soon after making that decision, I…
Read articleNothing in my hand I bring,simply to the cross I cling;naked, come to thee for dress;helpless, look to thee for grace;foul, I to the fountain…
Read articleThe world is again in the grip of yet another realization that it’s ways are bankrupt. The sexual revolution of the 60s has born more…
Read articleWe all had a starting point in life. I was born into a Christian home with a pastor for a father. My parents have been…
Read article“Better is a little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble with it. Better is a dinner of herbs where love…
Read articleThe story of the woman with the issue of blood in Mark 5:21-34 has always been one that has stuck out to me in the…
Read articleSometimes I feel trapped by the all the things I think I ought to do. I ought to do more; I ought to sin less….
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