But when God finally spoke, Moses pushed back. He asked who he was to do such a thing. God's answer was not a list of Moses' qualifications. It was simply, "I will be with you." That is the answer to every question about calling and adequacy. It is not about who you are. It is about who God is.  Read More

The God who brought the animals to Noah, who sustained an ark on impossible waters, who kept one family alive to carry forward His redemptive plan, is the same God asking what we will do with what He has placed in our hands today.  Read More

Faith is not a transaction where we present our needs and wait for results. It is a relationship built on the conviction that God Himself, the creator of all things, the one who never changes, the one who is patient and faithful and sovereign, is worthy of our complete trust.  Read More

Your name may never be remembered. But the difference you make in obedience to God will reverberate into eternity.  Read More

This is the tension every follower of Jesus must wrestle with. We are prone to thinking in small circles, our families, our neighborhoods, our churches, our cities. And while all of those things are important, the heart of God has always been fixed on something far larger.  Read More

The gap between the Christianity we know exists and the one we actually experience is not because of lack of desire. Most believers genuinely want more. The gap is one of practice. It is the distance between hearing and doing, between knowing and walking. What follows are seven foundational pillars that, when built into the rhythm of daily life, can close that gap entirely.  Read More

Ultimately, the purpose of the church can be understood in a single statement: to know Jesus Christ and to make Him known. Everything else flows from that. Every gathering, every act of service, every conversation, every sacrifice, every step of obedience — it all points us back to Him.  Read More

The issue has never been about giving God more activity or more religious effort. The issue is giving God yourself. The natural follow-up question is not how do I include more of Jesus in my life. The more honest question is: where did I get the idea that my life was mine to begin with?!?  Read More

Jesus took our place. He was crucified where we deserved to be and received what we deserved to receive. He did not deserve any of it. He had committed no sin, spoken no deceit. And yet He went willingly, surrendering in obedience so that the debt we could never repay would be paid in full.  Read More

Our witness to the world depends on our witness with Christ. A church that is alive to the cross and resurrection is a church that cannot help but overflow into the lives of people around it. Not because it is trying to grow, but because it is genuinely captivated by the One who died and lives again.  Read More

Drift is reversible. No matter how far off course life has wandered, the Father is not standing at a distance with condemnation. He is standing with open arms, saying come back. Come back to the life I always had for you. Come back to the calling, the purpose, the fullness that is found only in Me.  Read More

True encouragement is not the same as empty affirmation. It is not telling people what they want to hear or smoothing over difficult truths to keep the peace. Biblical encouragement, what the New Testament calls paraklesis, the same root word used for the Holy Spirit Himself, is something far more substantive.  Read More