Teen Counseling Insights from the Book of Job: The Need for Dignity & Presence
AUTHOR’S NOTE: One of the best ways we can learn what people in crisis need is by examining case studies of people who have successfully survived a crisis. The biblical […]
Your Kids Are Watching
In the 1960s, an educational psychologist named Laszlo Polgar conducted an experiment on his own children. He believed geniuses are not born, but rather trained. So, he and his wife, […]
Disciple Making, Matthew Bates, and 5-Point Calvinism: Q&A with Bill Hull
*Editor’s Note: Our mission at RENEW.org is to “renew the teachings of Jesus to Fuel Disciple Making,” so we want to take note of an important debate that is currently […]
Worship That Walks: a Restoration Reading of Acts 3
It’s a small detail, easily missed, but it shows the power of worship to energize discipleship. Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, […]
Fasting in the Old & New Testaments
Fasting in the Bible is a setting aside of time to abstain from food to repent from sin and seek God. We see this practice span both Old and New […]
Jesus and the Buddha: Who Spoke with More Authority?
How much authority did the Buddha have? How much authority did Jesus have? King Bimbisara, Gautama’s most distinguished patron, met a tragic end when his son Ajatasattu murdered him and […]
Does Something Feel Off with Modern Church Leadership?
In this article, I’d like to share a journey for me and why it has been so necessary to my own health to walk away from a modern church mentality […]
What Jesus Said About Fasting: When You Fast…
Growing up in Pakistan, I often heard from my Muslim friends that Christian fasting is incomplete and improper because Christians drink or eat during their fast. In Islam, Muslims are […]