Spiritual Formation
What in the World Is Eternal Life?
What if eternal life is less about the continuation of time forever and more about the removal of the limitations of time forever? Less about the “ten thousand years” and more about the divine irrelevance of years?
4 Reasons Why We Need to Keep Looking at the Cross
Over the next few days, many of us will look more closely at the cross than we normally do. But we will likely not linger there long enough.
Breaking Out of the Spiritual Gifts Straitjacket
My friend Jennifer leaned over my cubicle wall.
“You know when my whole life changed?” she said to me. “When I realized I didn’t have to just bake cookies all the time.”
10 Reasons Why Lent Is the Best Time of the Year
In the Protestant tradition in which I grew up we did not practice Lent (though many Protestant denominations do), but as an adult I have come to love Lent as my favorite season of the church calendar. Here are 10 reasons why.
What Growing Up in Saudi Arabia Taught Me About Muslims
I was in sixth grade and living in Saudi Arabia when terrorists bombed the Al Khobar Tower there. I felt the blast shake the neighborhood where I was babysitting at the time. When the smoke cleared from the building, where many kids from my elementary school lived, 19 Americans were dead, and nearly 500 people from many countries were injured.
Hope for a Broken World
What if we decided to give Jesus our pain and anxiety rather than trying to carry it ourselves? What if we stopped to listen to others around us who are broken and hurt? What if we stood to advocate for justice when we saw injustice happening? What if we chose to love our neighbors, even when loving looks sacrificial?
Why the Incarnation Is the Answer to Isolation
Leave it to G. K. Chesterton to write an essay called “In Defence of Baby Worship.”
What Spiritual Warfare Is (and What It Definitely Isn’t)
There is a reason why Paul writes about putting on “the whole armor of God” in Ephesians 6:10-18.