For the past nine years, this blog has been dedicated to helping the body of Christ embrace the call to be faithful stewards in a world of owners. We have written frequently on the contrast between the worldview of an owner vs. the calling of a steward. I pray that...

A few nights ago, while watching the news, I found myself muttering the same words story after story. “How can people think that way? What kind of values drive these attitudes? How can they see the world this way? I can’t even begin to conceive where these people are coming...

Easter Saturday morning Linda and I were having prayer and coffee on our deck, and we were discussing how this day was called Black Saturday by the ancient church. We wondered how the disciples must have felt, huddled in a secret room, scared, stunned, despondent. It occurred to us that...

This blog series is focused on one powerful, audacious truth. We have enough. I am urging us to cultivate a heart that embraces this truth, believes this truth and lives with its assurance. Deep contentment is the fruit of the heart that believes it has enough. Contentment means being at peace in the storm, calm in the chaos,...

I’m going to use the next several blogs to propose a most audacious, even outrageous idea. It’s an idea deeply rooted in the Gospel, yet one we have either conveniently forgotten or intentionally pushed to the periphery of our collective life as the body of Christ. Here it is…we have enough. “Enough of what?” you...

It’s difficult to enter 2023 without some sense of foreboding. We seem to be living in an unrelenting tension between our firm conviction that God is on the throne, and the evidence of a nation that is spinning out of control. Every morning when I pray the petition from the...

As the year draws to an end, we have a once-a-year opportunity to look back over the previous 12 months and remember, relive,(and possibly try to forget) the events that shaped our journey that was 2022. We do this in different ways. Perhaps some of us will go to our journal to page through the days, remembering how God answered prayer, how he was with you in the struggles and...

A lesson in relying on God’s faithfulness not our own abilities