Life is hard, and ministry adds another layer of difficulty. How can we preach when we ourselves are broken? Why would God allow our service to be made more difficult by soul-wrenching trials?

...Might it be that delayed fulfillment, desert detours, and daily bread are effective teachers precisely because they are inconvenient? Maybe the high value our world places on convenience makes us expect...

...So, if your affections for God aren’t accurately reflecting the goodness of who he is, first take an honest inventory of your prayer life, your thought life, your diet, and (perhaps especially) your screen time.

What is the biggest threat to a Christian ministry? Success, so believe it or not, the Christian’s greatest risk for failure is not during a trial or tribulation, but when they’ve just achieved something great.

Jude has made the saints aware that the Apostolic faith was under threat in the church. Its enemies were within the camp... Jude has now identified them and their error, indicating that it is time for the saints...

...If we recognize and acknowledge work as a gift from God (given to us, the Bible states, prior to the Fall of man), we are able to explore the original intent and purpose for work in our lives.

We must go all the way back to the beginning to discover why there is evil and suffering in the world. It was not God’s original choice. God was not the author of evil but man.

Kindness in dialogue is powerful, especially when we’re speaking with someone we disagree with. It opens up not only relational doors but intellectual doors. It helps us to understand each other better.

I love looking at leaders in the Bible and seeing how they are examples for us today. Epaphras is one of those guys. A little digging in Colossians uncovers some details about Epaphras

...The man who saw “walking trees” was a man in transition. He was at an intermediate stage between total blindness and full clarity of vision.

...Sometimes life’s circumstances are filled with rocky, slippery difficulties. We lose our footing, cry out to the Lord in fear of the unknown, and wonder if—and how—we will make it through.

...Forget how much you rely upon it. Forget that it fills every empty space in your day. Forget that it tracks everything you do. Forget that when you use it, you are a product.

Somewhere in the past, pastors and Bible scholars separated the return of Jesus for His church from the proclamation of the Gospel. This tragic exclusion of a key aspect of the Gospel has led to a...

Christ's resurrection was inevitable. But what Old Testament passages did Jesus quote foretelling His resurrection? Luke 24 does not reveal those details, but here are four passages Jesus may have...

For Jesus, prayer was an intimate relationship with His Father and the very foundation of His life. What would it mean to pray as Jesus prayed, and how might our lives be different than the average...

It’s no small secret that Christianity and hospitality go hand and hand...But while Christians may know to show hospitality, we can be less clear on how to show distinctly Christian hospitality.