Are You a Christian? Discover What Label Best Describes Our Faith Are you a Christian? Be careful before you answer. By definition I am a Christian, though I seldom use the Christian label. Why? In my book How Big is Your Tent?, I write...
Let’s Reclaim the True Meaning of the Words Follower and Friend Social Media Has Trivialized What It Means to Follow Someone and Be Their Friend Today when we think of the word followers, our mind quickly takes us to Twitter. As in, “How many...
What Does Christian Mean? I don’t like the label “Christian,” even though I am one. The Christian label is a loaded term. It means many things to different people. To some, Christian implies narrow-minded. To others, Christian means hateful...
We Should Live Our Lives to Influence Others Like yeast in a lump of dough, a little bit makes a big difference In the thirteenth chapter of the book of Matthew, we read many parables of Jesus. This includes the parable of the sower, the parable...
Who Are We to Judge? We May Have It Backwards Though the Bible tells us to judge, who we’re supposed to judge may shock you When Paul writes to his friends in Corinth, he has much to say because they struggle with many things. He spends a whole...
Jesus Talked about the Kingdom of God and We Made a Church What if Jesus Never Intended His Followers to Form a Church as we Know it Today? I looked at where the Bible talks about the kingdom of God and where it talks about church. What I learned...
Grumbling About Church Shows That We Care People complain about things that matter to them; silence reveals apathy When a customer complains about a business, the astute businessperson knows to embrace it as an opportunity. The fact that the...
What Did Jesus Do? Move from asking “What Would Jesus Do?” to asking “What Did Jesus Do?” The phrase “What Would Jesus Do?” was popularized in the 1990s. Often epitomized by colorful bracelets that bore the acronym WWJD, the concept was intended...
Put Jesus First This Christmas If we say “Jesus is #1,” our actions should confirm that, not prove us to be a liar The person’s Twitter profile was very telling. In fact, I almost missed what should have been her main point. Her key claim was...
Is Spiritual Truth More Important Than Christian Unity? Arguing over what is true has divided Jesus’s church for centuries I’m a huge advocate of Christian unity, that as Jesus’s followers we should all get along and live in harmony...
