Maybe it’s time to admit that we don’t know all the answers. But we know the One who does. Maybe we’ve been offering the wrong thing. We offer answers. God offers a relationship through Jesus Christ. His answer to our questions isn’t knowledge. It’s a relationship. And that relationship is […]
“Wisdom is found when troubled hearts ask honest questions.” – 40 Loaves Synopsis: Is there anything that you’re afraid to ask God? Author C. D. Baker asked himself 40 such soul-searching questions and wrote about what he discovered. Each chapter begins with an anecdote, discusses the question at hand and ends […]
Come near to God and he will come near to you. – James 4:8 Jesus Lives is a 359 page devotional book. Each devotion is two pages. The first page is the author’s writing and on the second page are 3 or 4 scriptures. The book is very similar in […]
If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. Do nothing out of selfish […]
… for the true God-follower, successfully living out your faith is not about what you can make or conquer or sell – even if you are very good at all three. It’s about those every day moments in which you can obey and embody Christ and bring Him into each […]
For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. – Romans 1:20 Synopsis (complements of Waterbrook press): As Little Cub and her family prepare to celebrate the most […]
“I will not cause pain without allowing something new to be born”, says the Lord. – Isaiah 66:9, NCV This is a good little book. Actually, at 281 pages, it isn’t so little. With sections on injustice, rejection, loneliness, loss, discipline, failure and death, the book covers a lot of […]
How do you empower yourself? I think the question really is, how do you keep from disempowering yourself? How do you make the choice not to impose self-limitations by thinking, I can’t do this. I can’t do that? Why not make the choice to be the very best at what […]
The Nines was a one-day event held on 09/09/09. Leadership Network asked over 75 leaders, “If you had just nine minutes to share with church leaders, what would you tell them?” In the spirit of being helpful, I want to direct your attention to a resource that is quite handy. […]
What if the life that we pursue Came from a hunger for the truth? What if the family turned to Jesus Stopped asking Oprah what to do? – Casting Crowns Reading this book, I was immediately struck with a sense of guilt. At one point, Dave and I were housemates. […]
His major contribution to the world was not a set of aphorisms. He was born in a turdy barn, grew up in a dirty world, got baptized in a muddy river. He put his hands on the oozing wounds of lepers, he let whores brush his hair and soldiers pull it out. He went to dinner with dirtbags, both religious and irreligious. His closest friends were a collection of crude fishermen and cultural traitors. He felt the spittle of the Pharisees on his face and the metal hooks of the jailer’s whip in the flesh of his back. He got sweaty and dirty and bloody – and he took all of the sin and mess of the world onto himself, onto the cross to which he was nailed naked.
In his work and in his words, Jesus is making promises to the beaten, the torn, the broken, the depressed, the desperate, the poor, the orphan, the abandoned, the cheated, the betrayed, the accused, the left-behind.
He is, believe it or not, promising to fix it all.
