There’s a better way. — Imagine you’re walking into a Sunday service at any church in your town. After the welcome and announcements, you’re invited up to the stage where you offer a question. “Who here has ever read the Bible? Not the whole thing but just any bit of it?” …

Reading at God’s pace — The pace of abiding Christians come to the Bible differently than any other body of writing. For us, it is not merely words on a page but a vessel for encountering God. To borrow some fancy theological jargon we can say this — in Scripture, God uniquely communicates his presence to us. We can…

Let’s ask some monks — Lately, I’ve been thinking about the relationship between work and prayer. Everyone acknowledges that prayer is at the heartbeat of Jesus’ way. A Christian seeks and sets aside time for communion with Jesus. Jesus himself withdrew to pray and even taught his disciples to pray. But most of us spend…

Becoming like God — It’s a fair question. Why Christianity? What’s the goal, the reason for our life in Christ? What are we aiming for? There are more than a few answers to that question. Consider a diamond, different angles unearth different perspectives. All of which are meant to complement one another and highlight…

Stop trying to make it — you won’t — I’m a future-oriented person. “What’s next?” is the question I’m constantly asking. I set goals and timelines for my life like it’s a part-time job. I’m rarely satisfied with where I am and always chasing the elusive sense that I’ve made it — I’ve arrived. Personally, this creates frustration. Spiritually…

Here’s what I’m really after — It’s interesting how desires shift with time. As a high schooler, there was a part of me that desired to be a pastor who was “known” to some degree. Someone you could Google, and everyone wanted to invite to their church to speak. …

Pursuing Christ’s call — Everyone wants to be happy. But how? How can we achieve the sense of happiness and arrival we long for? More often than not, the path to this is in the form of accrual. To achieve the peace we want, we strive for more. More money. More square feet. More promotions. More possessions. More attention. …

Do you ever feel spiritually unsettled? Like there’s an underlying lack of peace in your soul? No matter what you do, you just feel off-balance? No matter how old we are or how long we’ve been following Jesus, these feelings are natural and inevitable. …

Learning God’s Pace I recently read a mind-blowing statistic. If Amazon’s homepage was a single second slower at loading the company would lose $1.6 billion in sales every year. Think about that…. 1 second = $1.6 billion GONE. Time is money This takes the age old adage “time is money” to a whole…