Confession both cleanses ourselves and leads to authentic relationships.
I spent a good part of my career as a strategy consultant.
David chose to trust in his own power and mistrust God’s power. That choice endangered his very soul. He needed to be rescued from himself. But this mess was of his own making...
The existence of the Bible boggles the mind. Over a two thousand year span of history, some forty different authors, many of whom had never met, writing in wide ranging literary forms from history...
In his last sermon, delivered at a Memphis church the night before he died, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. told his audience that he’d been to the proverbial “mountaintop.”
In Exodus 5, Moses and Aaron approached Pharaoh, asking that he give the Israelites a short reprieve from their work so that they might hold a festival to honor the Lord. Predictably, Pharaoh...
Last week I was browsing in my local bookstore. I picked up a book with lots of promises on the cover about what success will come if I implement the teachings of this...
Many church leaders are seeking to understand how to move existing churches toward a missional direction.
Text: Daniel 1:8-21 Dominant Thought: Living faithfully as an exile means preserving your distinct identity as the people of God and giving...
“Christians have a hard time with nuance,” says author Brett McCracken in his latest release Gray Matters: Navigating the Space between Legalism...
It is striking that eight out of ten of the Ten Commandments are phrased in the negative...
The story of Joseph overflows with self-centeredness, beginning with Joseph's dreams, continuing through his brothers' treachery, right up to Jacob's self-absorbed response to his sons' report....
Ephesians 5:6 delivers bad news. God's wrath is coming "on those who are disobedient." What should we think of this? How should...
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I know a gentleman who runs a major division of a global firm. He is super-successful, has a wonderful family, and is...
Gasping for air, I told my wife, “We need to go to the emergency room.” ...
When the Sermon Goes to Work, by Haddon Robinson. Does selling insurance, running a laundromat, driving a...
I recently tracked down Charles H. Green to talk about his experience connecting trust, spirituality and business. ...
When I was about five years old, my family joined another family on a weekend vacation in Palm Springs, California. When Sunday morning rolled around, my parents informed me that we were going with...
In his book God, Dreams, and Revelation, Morton Kelsey wonders what ever became of dreaming in the Christian tradition. The scriptures are filled with dreamers, from Joseph with the coat of many...
