How to Plan Wickedly Well

How to Plan Wickedly Well

How to Plan Wickedly Well

When you plan, do you acknowledge what you don’t know, admit what you can’t control, and ask God for help? If not, your plans may be well-laid but wicked.

Will You Love Jesus in Five Years? Training Your Soul to Delight in Him

Will You Love Jesus in Five Years? Training Your Soul to Delight in Him

Will You Love Jesus in Five Years?

Training Your Soul to Delight in Him

Your soul is being conditioned every day for what you will delight in five years from now. Are you training yourself for delight in Jesus, or for indifference to him?

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Life Is Too Brief to Waste: Learning to Number Our Days

Life Is Too Brief to Waste

Learning to Number Our Days

When we learn to number our days, we see just how brief life is — briefer than we tend to assume, and far too brief to waste.

Take Your Worst to the Table: Reclaiming the Heart of Communion

Take Your Worst to the Table

Reclaiming the Heart of Communion

A whirlwind of questions can surround the practice of Communion, often obscuring its simple goodness. At the Table, Jesus trades our worst for his best.

Strangers to Sin: How Heaven Makes Us Holy

Strangers to Sin

How Heaven Makes Us Holy

Christian, you are not a citizen of this world. You hope for a better home and greater reward. Does this hope help you flee from sin now?

God’s ‘Excellent Work’: The Reformation’s Defense of Woman

God’s ‘Excellent Work’

The Reformation’s Defense of Woman

While some Christian theologians followed Aristotle in calling woman a “deformed man,” the Reformers did not. To them, woman was “a most excellent work” of God.

Christ in Foreign Clothes: Crossing Cultures Like an Apostle

Christ in Foreign Clothes

Crossing Cultures Like an Apostle

How can we faithfully preach Christ across cultures? We can begin by learning as much as we can from a culture-crossing expert like the apostle Paul.

The Marvelous Mundane: Embracing the Slow Work of God

The Marvelous Mundane

Embracing the Slow Work of God

God works not only in the high points of life, but also in the valleys and plains. He is Lord of the lowlands, Christ in the commonplace.

Ten Sweeter, Stronger Looks: How Examining Self Illuminates Christ

Ten Sweeter, Stronger Looks

How Examining Self Illuminates Christ

Godly introspection is a road, not a room, that ever takes us to the same glorious place: Jesus. And some of the best sights of Christ come at the end of that road.

Our Most Important Citizenship: Four Checks for ‘World Christians’

Our Most Important Citizenship

Four Checks for ‘World Christians’

Have the world’s patterns and “cultural moments” dulled the global scope and Great-Commission interests of your faith?

Peace Beyond Performance: Unshakable Joy for the Ups and Downs

Peace Beyond Performance

Unshakable Joy for the Ups and Downs

Does your joy rest most deeply on what you do for God or what God has already done for you in Jesus? Only Christ’s finished work can offer unshakable joy.

The Weary Missionary: Four Ways We Endure Discouragement

The Weary Missionary

Four Ways We Endure Discouragement

When the difficulty of cross-cultural ministry exceeds our expectations, how can we continue serving with joyful, patient endurance?

To Gain the World and Lose Your Soul

To Gain the World and Lose Your Soul

There is one item in the world that has no fair trade — the soul. And yet, how many trade the most priceless thing they own to gain mere trifles?

Never Too Young to Testify: Raising Children Like Agnes of Rome

Never Too Young to Testify

Raising Children Like Agnes of Rome

The martyrdom of Agnes of Rome reminds us that children are not too young to testify to Jesus — and that our call as parents is to prepare them.

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