Category: Culture

  • On November 9, 2016

    On November 9, I will continue to challenge believers to live in Kingdom authority. It’s not about a vote. It’s about a life.

  • Principles for Living in Babylon

    We’ve spent so much time cursing our culture and wringing our hands over things.

  • Words matter

    Our words reflect the deepest part of who we are.

  • The temptation to avoid and the invitation to grasp

    The temptation to avoid: The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. And he said to him, “I will give you all their authority and splendor; it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to. If you worship me, it…

  • The pursuit of STUFF

    The roots of our hearts have grown down into things, and we dare not pull up one rootlet lest we die. Things have become necessary to us, a development never originally intended. God’s gifts now take the place of God, and the whole course of nature is upset by the monstrous substitution. — AW Tozer, The Pursuit of God  

  • The news you never hear

    The biggest story that goes missed in our part of the world is Aleppo.

  • The beauty and tragedy of Christianity

    In all of our cultural coverings, we work so hard to make Jesus “attractive,” his beauty gets lost.

  • We STILL aren’t talking

    I hear more news and want to remember this name: Terence Crutcher. HERE IS WHY. Dear Lord… help.

  • We still aren’t talking

    Once we get a news cycle out of the way, we somehow make it okay to move away from the difficult conversations. Throw in the wackiest election cycle in… well… forever, and it’s easy to forget the underlying difficulties we still don’t deal with in our culture. It’s only been two months since I was jolted by the shooting of…

  • 4 days to Ethiopia

    There are so many opportunities to be “anxious.” But these are not days to worry.