For Bonhoeffer, Christ crucified, and the cross of the Christian life were not of peripheral importance, but foundational.
03/04/26
While we often talk about our growth, our progress, and what we are doing for the kingdom of God, the reality is that any goodness in a Christian does not originate in us.
03/02/26
Your exhaustion may not be a sign of weakness of faith. It may be the fruit of enthusiasm. It is Lent. Fast from your fever. Embrace the exhaustion. Curb your inner enthusiast and cling to Christ.
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04/22/25
While I disagree with many things Francis did and believed, I think he deserves credit for this: Francis showed us what Christian leadership can look like.
04/09/25
Three Lenten songs express the same astonishing wonder of a Lord who willingly suffers and dies.
04/04/25
News of Kilmer's death hit me like a freight train because his Doc Holliday stirred something in me about friendship—both the earthly kind and the divine.
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03/27/25
How intentional will we be about utilizing gospel spaces that already inescapably communicate?
03/26/25
Sometimes the old story is the one we need to hear again and again.
03/12/25
We are called to believe in the church even when we don’t believe in the church.
03/11/25
The great lie of addiction is that suffering must be fled, must be numbed, must be drowned out by any means necessary.
03/03/25
To be happy is to be the object of God’s love in Christ and to love God and others with the love of Christ.
02/25/25
Despite the mathematical incongruity, the church confesses that Christ is one hundred percent human and one hundred percent divine.
02/24/25
Jesus refreshes you with the promises of the gospel, wrapped in the words of Scripture, drawn in the pictures of the sacraments.
02/21/25
Polycarp’s faith, life, writings, and even his death revealed the fruit of faith and love grafted into his heart by Christ the Vine.
02/19/25
Jesus is very difficult to bring down. That’s the power of it.
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