How To Embrace Your Dispensability
Oftentimes, we’re tempted to think things will fall apart if we’re removed from the equation. We’re afraid to give up control and trust that someone else can finish the task just as well, if not better, than we can. Pride says, everything will fall apart if I’m not involved. Humility says, things may even start to run better without me.
Your Resolutions Flew Out The Window
In the midst of faltering resolutions, refresh your heart and mind with these four truths…
If He Calls You, He Will Equip You
If you’re in a place of insecurity, wondering how to handle a challenging task, remember three things.
Invite Someone To Sunday Lunch
The dinner table has a way of breaking down barriers between people. As we sip our coffee and eat our pie, we share about life and faith in Christ.
God Loves Ministry No One Else Sees
God rejoices in sea creatures and rare flowers that no one but him will ever see. He delights even more in children who serve him gladly in unseen ways.
Reasons To Remember
As we remember how God led, provided, and protected in the past, we can trust He will be faithful for tomorrow…
The Proverbs 31 Woman Is The Church
We need one another. We depend on one another. We bless one another with our gifts…
Give Your Teenager To God
Our children’s growing independence should not lead us to fear, but to trust. Even when our kids step out of our reach, they never step out of God’s.
Seven Questions About Books, Life, And Ministry With Stacy Reaoch
An interview I did with Servants of Grace on some of the most influential books in my life.
The Social Media Strategy of John the Baptist
What if we used whatever influence we have—whether over the crowd to whom we’re speaking or over the “followers” at our kitchen table—to point to the only One who can rescue and redeem?
Get Outside Yourself In Suffering
Suffering tempts us to throw pity parties as we navel gaze. But Jesus calls us to love others in our hurt.
Exhausted Mom, Lift Your Eyes
They say cleaning your house with young children is like brushing your teeth while eating Oreos. The moment I finish cleaning the living room, I hear a crash in the bedroom that tells me a stack of puzzles has just been emptied on the floor. In the midst of all the mundane tasks—emptying the dishwasher, tackling the laundry piles, filling the cereal bowls—it’s easy to lose sight of God’s greater purpose.
Ready To Commit, Slow To Compare
Church communities look different for every group of believers. But what never changes is our desperate need for one another.
Make Room For Different Kinds Of Discipleship
In our efforts to encourage discipleship in the local church, be open to different ways God might choose to influence you.
How Much Do You Love Chocolate?
God filled the world with good things. Satan would love to use them to keep you from joy in Jesus. Don’t rob God’s gift of their real joy in him.
Say ‘Thank You’ To Someone Today
If gratefulness rises up in our hearts, but never spills out of our mouths, we are only experiencing the beginnings of real joy.
Free Yourself To Focus On Christ This Christmas
Five simple ways to help you battle the pull to drown in busyness this season and to keep your focus on Christ, seeking to follow His pattern of love and humility…
Rescued From The Sea Of Self
Are you lost in a sea of self-absorption, or are you pushing against the grain to see how God is at work in others’ lives around you?