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God wants the church to work together like a body, but we’re more like a body with cancer; we’re attacking ourselves…

The famous reformer Martin Luther and almost equally important reformer Huldreich Zwingli were contemporaries but most emphatically not friends.

The Bible clearly says that God loves people, but Jesus also walked away from a lot of people, so who does God reach out to and what inspires his merciful attention? 

Problems and suffering in life can sometimes feel relentless, so how do we endure when our trials and complications just don’t stop coming?

As beautiful as certain past experiences can be, the moment they stop us from living fully in the present, they become a problem. 

In its bestseller books on relationships, Amazon ranks The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts as the third most popular. The audiobook version comes in fifth. Number six is 8 Rules of Love, and number seven is Attached, a book about psychological attachment theory in romantic relationships. 

Humility is one of the most difficult Christian virtues both to define and obtain. What is it exactly? How can we tell if we’re succeeding in becoming more humble?

“The Great Wave off Kanagawa”, one of the most famous pieces of Japanese art, was created during some of the hardest years of Katsushika Hokusai’s life.

Our modern culture has many metrics by which we measure the value of another person, and to some degree, these ideas have worked their way into the church. 

Hope, like the word ‘love’, gets used in many different ways, so how do we understand what biblical hope is?

“A fellow from the cannery came running down to the wharf shouting that the Japanese had just bombed Pearl Harbor,” Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston wrote. “Mama yelled at him, ‘What is Pearl Harbor?’” 

Scripture calls believers the light of the world; despite this, we’re often troubled by sin and struggles, so how do we live out this calling? 

Brian Keenan stood, looking out at the desert. An oppressive heat pulsed over him and the entire land, but then a cold blast of wind hit him. It chilled him to the bone as the wind tore over him, pieces of grit and sand stinging his skin.

As Christians, we often struggle with the dilemma of cultural relevancy pitted against cultural ‘purity.’ How do we honor God while living in a society that definitively does not? 

Individuality is viewed very differently in the Middle Eastern and Asian world than the West. The Eastern mentality is probably best summarized in an old adage that is ubiquitous throughout this part of the world: “The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.”