Posts with the tag “great-commission”

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

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