I wanted to share with you a passage from The Pursuit of God by A. W. Tozer that I came across this past week:
One of the greatest hindrances to internal peace which the Christian encounters is the common habit of dividing our lives into two areas, the sacred and the secular.
…Our trouble springs from the [...]

I had to share this quote from Dietrich Bonhoeffer:
“All Christian thinking, speaking, and organizing must be born anew… The day will surely come when humankind will once more be called to so utter the Word of God that the world will be changed and renewed by it. It will be a new language perhaps quite [...]

Last week I took three days to spend at home with my family. For the most part, I avoided email, Facebook, texting, and all of my other distractions. It was nice to just take a break and “get away.”
I don’t do this enough, and if most of you are honest, neither do you. We are [...]

Today at my retreat, I have been challenged to begin simplifying my life. I have already taken my first step.
I am an admitted iPhone addict (technology addict in general). My phone often distracts me in conversations and other contexts that require my full attention. At the break, I changed the setting on my phone so [...]

Love. It is the topic of countless stories. It is the theme of many songs. There have been hundreds, if not thousands, of movies built around the idea of love.
So why is love such a significant part of the human experience?
Consider what Paul says in 1 Corinthians 13. You may have read this or heard [...]

Wow! What a week!
Due to very limited internet access, I was not able to post a blog during our mission trip to Cincinnati, so here is a recap of our week…
Monday was primarily a day of travel as we loaded everyone up in the vans and drove to the camp where we would be staying [...]

When we think of teaching, we often think of classrooms, desks, and lectures. The reality is that all of life is filled with teaching. The things we say. The way we act. The attitudes we display. For anyone who is watching, we are serving as a teacher.
The apostle Paul wrote the following…
So be careful how [...]