I often find myself in conversations with other Christians about the ministry they sense God calling them to in their daily lives. Sometimes it is new believers, who are learning to listen to God’s voice for the first time through intentional practices like reading scripture daily, focused prayer, and fasting, and who are beginning to […]
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Let me start by acknowledging that life is often very difficult. There is no person, who escapes the journey of life in the present world unscathed. We will all suffer at some level. Many theologians have wrestled with and attempted to shed light on the problem of evil and why a good God, who is
Reformed Pastor and Theologian Dr. John Piper recently spoke before attendees at a conservative Christian conference in Indiana. Addressing the hype over all things AI, he told the audience that he had asked Chat GPT to write a prayer for him, giving it some basic guidelines to follow. He then read the AI generated content
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I absolutely love the Church! And I love reading and teaching about its history. Even in all of the messiness and mistakes of our past, Christians across the globe and in all times have sought to follow Jesus faithfully as we wait for God’s kingdom to come fully. In fact, it is in some of
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I’ll be sharing more in the coming weeks about my plans for writing 2025. In the meantime, I wanted to kick things off by inviting you to reflect with me about the nature of the Church. Why does it exists? What is its true purpose? And why should we care? Let me start by saying
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We sometimes overcomplicate discipleship. In his letter to the Pilippian church, the Apostle Paul issues a challenge to give every thing we have to pursuing the one thing that matters most.
Starting over is both exciting and daunting. For more than a decade I blogged regularly about pastoral ministry and life in the Church. I began writing publicly in seminary and continued through my PhD program and while serving as a full-time pastor. And then one day I stopped, deleted my blog, and shut down my
