Pain and the Necessity of Pruning

Have you ever felt like your life was being chopped away at the roots by a dull axe? Yeah, me too. If we are honest, I think for many of […]
What Are Christians Doing on Social Media?

How are you representing Jesus on social media? Now, there is a lot of good that can be done through social media. There’s a lot of damage that can be […]
4 Creative Ways Churches are Serving Their Communities

How does a church step up and serve its hurting community when restricted by social distancing? Here are four creative snapshots of church leaders getting creative for the sake of […]
A Call to Pastors: Don’t Run

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic and its continued spread in the United States, the debate is raging about which is going to end up being worse: the death […]
Coronavirus: What Christians Need to Know

In my context, the eminent threat of the coronavirus (what the World Health Organization has deemed a world wide pandemic, and now President Trump has declared a national emergency for […]
Meet Your Mentors in Exile

Christianity from the beginning existed on the margins. It didn’t start out the state religion of Rome or the favored spirituality of the Greco-Roman cultural elite. Since then, it’s true […]
The Seasonal Nature of Discipling

Ecclesiastes 3:1 says, “There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under the sun.” The longer I live life, the more I find this to be […]
If I Had One Sermon to Preach to the American Church

Jon has preached hundreds of sermons, but I (Daniel) asked him, if he got one chance to preach one sermon to the American church at large, what would it be? […]