Most people think of stewardship in strictly financial terms, as if stewardship is just a money-management technique. There are all kinds of problems with that way of looking at stewardship.  Read More

What is the purpose of the government? What is the purpose of the Church? What does this mean?  Read More

The question is not whether our beliefs are “inclusive” or “exclusive” the question is on what grounds do we base our beliefs.   Read More

These words of Jesus are part of the Upper Room discourse, words He spoke to His men the night before He died. When we yank those words out of context – when we treat them like calligraphy we might find at Hobby Lobby – we badly understand what Jesus was promising.   Read More

People coming to church on Sunday morning are “voting with their feet.”  Read More

What do we mean by “identity”? I am a man, a pastor, a husband and dad and Pappaw. I’m a side-sleeper, a Beavercreek resident, a booklover, a native Texan, an introvert. But those are just labels. They describe me, but they don’t really supply me with an identity; they don’t say much about my sense of self.  Read More

Christian parents often hear, “Why do we go to church?” I want my children to know that our weekly gathering as believers is primarily about the worship of God and secondarily the love of others.   Read More

Why don’t people want to belong to a fellowship of believers?  Read More

So many Christian books seem to be how-to explanations aimed at high achievers. Not this book:  Read More

We act as if we think that faith is all about ideas when it is also about stories, imagination, and desire.  Read More

The people of God have all been gifted gifts in the Christian life, the greatest gift being Christ Himself. We are each gifted uniquely, and this is meant to humble us in relation to one another, not attempt to pay back the gifts, or compare the gifts, but to enjoy and use them.   Read More

What we see is that because it is God who gives us what we have, as recipients of God’s gifts we must associate with a posture of humility to those around us.  Read More