We are so free as Christians that we don't even have to compare ourselves to other Christians.

To be lukewarm is to take refuge in your own works apart from the works of God.

The prophets of old were right: we do resemble what we revere. Our anthropology is hijacked by materialism. We become just stuff who consume stuff and hope to have enough stuff to make life worth it.

Following him will also mean keeping our eyes locked on him so unswervingly that we don’t have the time or energy to be standing on tiptoes, peeping over fences into other people’s troubles and struggles.

So much religion is all about us getting this or getting that. The God who comes to us in Jesus is all about giving us himself over and over.

I’m a drug addict. Specifically, a recovering drug addict. More specific, a grateful recovering drug addict.

Whether we realize it or not, all these online, self-editing actions are nothing more than our admission that we believe that we are so deeply flawed that no one will love us just as we are.

We’re by nature counters. So long as we can add, subtract, multiply and divide something, anything, we have some measure of control and comparison.

Having a particularly sad day, I set out to find the Gospel of Happy.

Having a particularly sad day, I set out to find the Gospel of Happy.

As the devil awakens after a long slumber, recovering from the resurrection event, he finds his shackles loosened and the glorious screams of torment throughout his dark empire

If affairs always begin by believing lies, then repentance always begins by believing the truth: the truth that you are in the wrong, the truth that you have a God who loves you in Jesus Christ, and the truth that he and he alone can save you not only from adultery but from every sin that seeks to lead you down the path of destruction.