Celebrity Christians
We live in an age of celebrity Christians: legendary best-selling authors, venerated rock stars of worship, and renowned mega church pastors. While we …
Circumstantial Judgement
A pastor-friend of mine once experienced a colossal succession of disappointments. His favor with his followers faltered, his once fruitful ministry …
The Necessity of Hearing God
“For God does speak–now one way, now another–though man may not perceive it” (Job 33:14). Humanity was created to be in a relationship with …
Why Are We Still Prisoners?
Christianity claims we are made new through a re-birth, we are new creations with new hearts, and the walls that imprisoned us have been bulldozed. …
Giving God My Emptiness
My leadership at my church feels fruitless; my last few sermons stank; in the first 34 weeks of this year, I published only 25 “weekly” articles; and …
Broken Answers
I broke my leg skiing during my senior year in high school. It was the last run of the day (apparently, when you break a leg skiing, it’s always the …
CEO Jesus
Last week a friend forwarded to me a podcast in which a megachurch pastor was interviewed about his handling of COVID. The well-known pastor had made …
Lady, You Are So Lucky!
Years ago, I attended a Friday night high school prayer meeting. One evening a young woman stood up and said that she ran a red light on the way to …
Living A Legacy Life
A few years ago I published, Mission Idolatry. My point was that our deepest worship is not expressed by the twenty minutes of Sunday morning singing, …
Insidious Creep
When I was in ninth grade, I attended a weekly prayer group. After a meeting one Friday evening, a young woman asked for prayer to address her extreme …
Fear of Fruitlessness
Last week God shocked me with two verses spoken to one of his prophets: “You shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You …
The Fear of Risk
Years ago, I went scuba diving into a shark-feeding frenzy with two of my kids. We descended sixty feet to the ocean floor, knelt in a large circle, …