Acts, anger, evangelism, Gospel, grace, Holy Spirit, identity, Jesus, love, relationships, witnessing
In the evangelical Christian world, we often treat “witnessing” as something on our to-do list. It’s what we are supposed to do (but very few of us do it…). Never mind that non-Christians aren’t tasks to be checked off but human beings to...
believe, Church, discipleship, Ephesians, evangelism, God, Gospel, grace, Jesus, Luke, Matthew, salvation
I started reading a Bonhoeffer book last week. He wrote it in the 1930’s, but it reads as if he wrote it yesterday. Is the price that we are paying today with the collapse of organized churches anything else but an inevitable consequence of grace acquired too...
Bible, conflict, evangelism, Holy Spirit, ministry, Nehemiah, prayer
Have you ever prayed mid-conversation? Not out loud, but just silently in your heart? Have you ever been having a conversation with someone, and while they are speaking or during a pause, you start talking to God about the conversation you are having with that...
Bible, evangelism, God, Gospel, Jesus, love, Mark
“Jesus looked at him and loved him.” This sentence stole my breath yesterday. I came across it in the Gospel of Mark, where an account of Jesus’ interaction with a rich man is detailed. Mark 10:17-22 reads like this, 17 As Jesus started on his way, a...
apologetics, Bible, evangelism, God, Matthew
The woman overheard me telling someone else I am teaching high schoolers at church. That must’ve piqued her interest because she asked in a positively curious tone, “Oh, what are you teaching?” “Apologetics,” I told the 30-something year...
1 Peter, apologetics, Bible, C.S. Lewis, evangelism, Gospel, Jesus, parenting
Before I became a Christian, I realized something pretty quickly about the teenagers in my public high school who believed in God: they had no idea why they believed what they believed. They couldn’t give me much of a reason to trust their belief system over...
