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How to Not Deconstruct Your Christianity
Over the last several years, there’s been a rash of high-profile people leaving Christianity. Worship leaders. Pastors. Famous Christian authors. Christian influencers, bloggers, leaving the faith to embrace the deceptions of this world. And a whole bunch of us “regular” people. “Deconstructing your Christianity” is now a thing. So what’s going on? This is nothing...Read the Post→
How to Get Kingdom Gifts
Everything in the Kingdom of God is upside down and backwards compared to how we as humans think. The best Kingdom gifts, the ones that give us the most pleasure and the most joy, are the ones we give away. In Matthew 7:2, Jesus says, “With the measure you use, it will be measured to...Read the Post→
How to Help Someone without Rescuing Them
One of the hardest things to navigate is helping someone in a healthy way, without rescuing them in an unhealthy way. We don’t want to interfere with God’s process of sowing and reaping in their lives. (Here’s my previous post with 3 reasons why.) Sometimes it feels like watching a train wreck in slow motion....Read the Post→
Use These 3 Guidelines to Speak Up for What’s Right
Speaking up for what’s right is important. As God’s people, if we don’t speak up for what’s right, we leave the world in a moral vacuum that our enemy is all too happy to fill with deception. Much of the societal decay in the world around us has risen to unprecedented levels because God’s people...Read the Post→
Why to Help, Not Rescue, Someone Who’s Destroying Their Life
One of the most painful things in life is to watch one of our loved ones destroy their lives. It doesn’t matter if it’s drugs, alcohol, promiscuous sex, porn, gambling, or workaholism. Or something worse. When we medicate the pain in our lives instead of dealing with it, it’s always destructive. And it’s hard to...Read the Post→
2 Simple Words to Defeat the Bullies
No one likes to be bullied. Yet in our modern, sophisticated world, our enemy’s primary method of controlling the people of God is bullying. The church has been bullied into compliance for far too long. The good news is, whether it’s a personal bully or a societal one, like an unrighteous government, there are two,...Read the Post→
Why Good Friends Don’t Accept You Just the Way You Are
What do you want in your friends? What makes a good friend? Many people would answer, “A good friend accepts you just the way you are.” I beg to differ. That’s not a friend. Both your local waiter and the cashier at your gas station accept you just the way you are. Because they don’t...Read the Post→
Performance Orientation
I’ve lived my whole life, since I was a young boy, to hear Jesus say, on that Day, “Well done good and faithful servant.” (See Matthew 25:21 & 23.) Those six blessed words. While I was reflecting on how much I want to hear him say that, I heard the Lord tell me, in the...Read the Post→
4 Ways to Get the Healing We Need
All of us have wounding. We live in a fallen world with a powerful spiritual enemy who wants to destroy us, or at least keep us from living the adventure God created us for. Our enemy does this by wounding us. The good news is, Jesus heals wounding. But how? How do we go about...Read the Post→
6 Ways the Enemy Keeps Us in Pain
Our enemy is terrified of who God created you to be. And for good reason. When one Christian actually steps into the adventure God created him to live, the enemy’s kingdom suffers tremendous losses. Structures of lies that took decades to build come crumbling down in a moment. Whole people groups are set free. The...Read the Post→