I don’t know what the rest of 2021 will bring, but no matter what happens, our communities and our culture will need people who follow Jesus faithfully to show up again and again full of truth and full of grace.
2021 will be a year of good news. Does that mean we’ll see positive news headlines in the media? Probably not. But the word “gospel” literally means “good news,” and it never gets old.
The agenda of King Jesus is crystal clear. It has been spoken. It has been written. It has been decided what Jesus would and did come to accomplish, and there is no reversing this divinely authoritative decree.
This modern creed is a confession of faith that honors the essential theological elements of the ancient church creeds while intentionally reflecting the place of the church in the modern world.
In Dare to Lead, her wonderful book about vulnerability as the key to influential leadership, Brené Brown proclaims a simple and powerful truth, “Clarity is… Read More »This is No Time to Preach in Neutral
The problems the world faces today and the missional doors opened before us today are the result of the careful coordination of the God who wants to empower you to serve now.
I grew up in a church where visiting evangelists would scream, then gasp for breath, then scream a little more. They walked around on the… Read More »The Three Voices of Effective Pastoral Leadership
Earlier today, I received a text from a friend who asked how I and my family were faring right now. I responded simply with, “Surviving… Read More »The Two Ways Jesus Gets Me Through My Hardest Days
When you’re hurting and sad and you don’t even know exactly why you’re so sad, but someone, instead of offering solutions or guilt trips or “snap out of it” advice just comes along and validates what you’re feeling, it’s powerful. In other words, it’s just hard.
I can’t give up on the church because, as messy as she is, she’s His idea. Jesus died for her, was raised for her, and commissioned her to be light in the darkness and love to the lost until he comes back to fix it all.