When we don’t understand the background and bigger picture behind a quote, we can end up with some pretty strange conclusions, so how often do we do this with the Bible?

If you had to answer the question “Who are you?” right now, what would you use to define your answer? 

Genius and inventor of the theory of relativity, Albert Einstein was called “lazy, sloppy, and insubordinate” by his teachers all the way from elementary school to the university level.

So many things in life seem to demand our attention, so how do we choose what will stay or go, and how do we find peace with these endings?

In a sermon on Zechariah, Pastor Carter Conlon explained the deep discouragement that people felt seeing the rebuilt Temple.

When we don’t fit very well into God’s family, what should we do? If we meet someone who isn’t the type we’re used to, how should we respond?

If you’re not a person who is checking off the appropriate life-stage boxes at the “right” time, you’ve probably come across some people in church who make it weird in a hurry. Let me replay a quick anagram of the most common conversations I’ve had in church.

A strange little holiday is coming up, and if you haven’t celebrated it before, should you and how would you?

Almighty God, you have created us out of the dust of the earth. Grant that these ashes may be to us a sign of our mortality and penitence, that we may remember that it is only by your gracious gift that we are given everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Savior.

This particular holiday is commonly assumed to be a Catholic one, but it has far older roots in the earliest beginnings of the church and has clear modern day relevance for God’s people.

A group of avowed agnostics decided to observe Lent, “atheist Lent” as they put it.

A lot of us feel like we’ve fallen short in some way and been disregarded as a result, so how do we handle this pain?

“Do you ever feel overlooked?” Gary Wilkerson asked in a devotional.

“When I was about ten years old, my father gathered me and my two sisters and my little brother, and he said, ‘I just went up into the mountains, and I’ve come back, and I have a blessing for all four of you kids. The Holy Spirit gave me a blessing.’

Even if we’re busy with work and ministry, how do we know if we are fully and passionately pursuing God’s purpose in our lives or just drifting along?

As believers in the modern Western world, we often find that our spiritual endurance and hardiness leave something to be desired, so how do we change this?

“We are all in such a hurry, we want everything at once. We believe that all truth can be stated in a few minutes. The answer to that is that it cannot.” —D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures