Ministering to Felt Needs
There was this nice, new family who was visiting your church for the past month or so. But you haven’t seen them now for a couple weeks, and so you…
Justin Poythress
The Underdog Must Win
David and Goliath. Field of Dreams. Star Wars. Rocky. The Sandlot. The Hunger Games. Underdog stories never get old. We can’t help loving them. They also contain a distinctively American…
A Sensitive Muzzle
The young man was sitting in the airport, wearing a Harry Potter World cap and a simple black tee shirt. The non-stylized white text on the shirt was small enough…
A Secular Age
In writing A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has slowly, and thoroughly built what is in essence his life’s work. He first lays out the terms that he intends to work with in defining secularism. This…
A Secular Age
In writing A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has slowly, and thoroughly built what is in essence his life’s work. He first lays out the terms that he intends to work with in defining secularism. This…
Easy Like a Midweek Small Group
Consistent throughout Scripture is the idea that the impossibility of perfection does not loosen its claim on us. God’s vision of the bride of Christ, as of a people without…
The Powerlessness of Prayer-Shaming
“What if you and your family were starving, and someone with an abundance of food responded by letting you know that they were ‘offering thoughts and prayers’?” You’re immediate inner…