Church Spiritual Maturity Gives Latitude Not Judgment 14 Jan 2020 You are not spiritually mature if you are obsessed with the sins and failures of others. We often think that spiritual maturity means we have a low tolerance for anything…
Books Books I Read in 2019 31 Dec 2019 I stalled in my reading somewhere in the middle of the year. So, it was an off year in terms of completed books. Nonetheless, I did read some great works…
Anxiety Anxiety’s Terrible Companions 18 Dec 2019 Many of us know the common bedfellow of anxiety is depression. Where the one runs the other tends to tagalong. But anxiety actually has a number of companions. The Psalmist…
suffering The Value of Suffering in Sanctification (Part 4) 13 Dec 2019 How we live speaks more volumes to the people around us, then the words we say. Our lives are the testimony of our true, deeper beliefs. This is especially true…
Anxiety A Testimony of Overcoming Anxiety 5 Dec 2019 It is the joy of seeing transformed lives that first drew me into counseling. There is nothing like getting a front row seat to the transformative power of God's grace.…
Community Rethinking Christian Community (Part 5): The Fear of Legalism 3 Dec 2019 One of the worst things that you can be accused of in the modern church is legalism. Legalism is, of course, a terrible thing, and yet often the fear of…
Books A Review of “Anxiety: Knowing God’s Peace” by Paul Tautges 2 Dec 2019 Anxiety is one of the most frequent problems of modern Americans. Both those inside and outside the church struggle with the impact of fear and worry. In his new devotional,…
Sex Fighting Sexual Sin with Proper Motivation 14 Nov 2019 Sexual sin can create chaos and turmoil in someone's life. It can cause relational problems, financial problems, legal problems, and inward shame and self-hatred. There are, then, a string of…
suffering The Value of Suffering in Sanctification (Part 3) 13 Nov 201913 Nov 2019 It was interesting to me that George did not believe he had an anger problem. It seemed obvious to others around him, but he remained resistant to the idea. It…
Community Rethinking Christian Community (Part 4): The Fear of Commitment 12 Nov 2019 Commitments come with losses. To make a commitment in one direction is to necessarily forgo a commitment in another direction. Increasingly, however, American culture has put a low value on…
