What Makes You Cry?
Why is it that some people rarely cry while others weep at the opening of a new supermarket? Sometimes it is a matter of maturity. While we expect babies to […]
Discipling Girls and Women: A Q&A with Anessa Westbrook
When it comes to discipling girls and women to trust and follow Jesus, are there any observations or tips that help make it more effective? Anessa Westbrook, DMin, professor of […]
Your Greatest Resource for Managing Personal Finances
Personal finances can be a daunting and blood pressure-spiking topic. It can give us feelings of success or failure. It’s an area of our lives that can be hard to […]
I Must Remind Myself I Have Died
We tend to understand “Christ in me” better than we understand “me in Christ.” It’s easy for us to see Jesus as a spiritual part of us, rather than us […]
3 Ways to Check Your Organization’s Culture
Organizational culture seems like a simple concept at first glance. Putting words on paper, talking about concepts, and pronouncing to the world that this is who we are and what […]
What Does the Bible Say About Work? 10 Truths
What does the Bible say about work? That depends on where you flip to. The entrepreneurial and successful “Proverbs 31 woman” has a very different relationship to work than the […]
Comparing New Testament Interpretations with the Church Fathers
I (Bobby) recall being part of a meeting where national church leaders discussed/debated the essential definition of church (the subject of “minimum ecclesiology”). After all, if we are going to […]
When I Am Weak, Then I Am Strong: Reflections on Moses, Jeremiah, Paul, and Charlie Brown
If you’ve ever read the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz or watched Peanuts movies, you probably understand that the famous main character, Charlie Brown, struggles with feelings of inadequacy […]