Red Letter Believers has a collection of High Calling blog posts about Sabbath. This is worth a read. Sabbath is so counter-cultural that the Church in America ignores it even though it is...
“If you are faithful in little things, you will be faithful in large ones. But if you are dishonest in little things...
The dust swirled in the hot humid air as I trudged home from school. I slipped the report card next to Mom’s...
In yesterday's reflection, we saw that Christian growth as pictured in Ephesians 4:11-16 is mainly corporate. Though individual believers are to "no...
We are excited about a new opportunity to start the week off with a holistic focus. We are partnering with The High Calling on an event called Labor Day Sunday. On the US...
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Experienced engineers will take less pay in exchange for a sane work schedule and fulfilling relationships.
It is easy for a pastor to get “tunnel vision.” That tunnel vision comes from a semi-isolation factor inherent from the nature of the job. For years I had preached about holding out...
How do you take a picture of a million people? Howard Butt, Jr. suggests a different way of bringing things into focus.
In 1982, when I was a sophomore at Baylor University, Tony Campolo spoke at a state-wide gathering of Christian college students. By the end of his sermon, provincial scales had fallen from my...
Just as the command and consequence approaches have to determine which commands and consequences are truly good, the character approach has to determine which virtues are good. Aristotle emphasized the classical Greek virtues...
Last night, my wife Margie read from and signed copies of her book, The Exact Place. Anita had filled Toad Hall with candles and flowers, arranged chairs so everyone could hear easily, made...
How many organizations do you know that have lasted a thousand years? ...
As we read Ephesians 2:8 in English, we are not surprised to find the word "gift" in the last part of the verse: "it is the gift of God." After all, Paul often...
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin...
Writer’s note: This interview, two weeks before Fred Smith died, turned out to be the very last...
What are the most important words you have ever heard? When I think back over my life, I remember words such as...
Happy Monday everyone, (see, it’s working already); and welcome to our weekly book club discussion. We’re getting to know John D. Beckett better--hearing more of his story. This week we are...
This is week two in our book club discussion of The Spirit of Food: 34 Writers On Feasting and Fasting Toward God...
2013 could easily be known as the Year of Change for me. I got married, became a step-mom, moved to a new...
