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What on Earth Is the Peace of Christ?
The Peace of Christ is the Peace of the Cross, a place of unbridled chaos and unutterable pain intersected with the complete reverse of resurrection.
The Problem with Good Morals
The Christian life is not about aspiring to better behavior but becoming abandoned to Jesus.
Why We Need to Practice Our Faith in Full Pads
Compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience create the conditions where the Holy Spirit heals wounded people, mends broken relationships and reverses intractable situations.
Gentile Lives Matter but Not Why We Think
In the Kingdom of God there are many distinctions between people but there is no difference.
Breaking Free from the Slavery of Your Old Self
Our old selves must be taken off, deconstructed, crucified, dead, and buried. This only happens when we dare to believe the gloriously beautiful truth about ourselves.
Why Anger Management Will Never Get It Done
The cross always has a will of its own and it is always for God's glory and our good.
The Difference between a Death Sentence and the Death Penalty
Condemned, cancelled sin can be so wiley and deceptive, and it can keep us shrouded in so much shame that we can't bear even the thought of opening up about it to someone else.
How You Can Go to Your Own Funeral
What we need are not more baptismal rituals and remembrances for the spiritually dead. What we need are more tombstones for the living.
How to Move from Morning Devotions to Movemental Devotion
I'm afraid we've gotten a lot better at delighting ourselves with restful morning devotions than we are at the movemental discipline of rigorous devotion.
Are You a Rule Follower or a Rule Breaker?
We do not need rules. What we need is a Ruler. The Lordship of Jesus Christ has nothing to do with following the rules and everything to do with following the Ruler.
Beware of Super Spiritual People and Communities
The mark of a spiritual person, in the tradition of Jesus, is not in some kind of super spirituality but in the holiness of their humanity.
Why We Trade in the Movement for the Motions
Forms and rituals and motions can be good things until they become the main things, denying the dynamics they were created to cultivate.
On the Difference between Sin, Sins, and Credit Card Debt
We are not in debt because of our sins. We are in debt because of sin.
On the Difference between Difficult and Impossible
My faith in the working of God who raised Jesus from the dead must translate into my faith in the working of God who raised me from the dead.
The Change That Could Change Everything for Us
The fundamental shift so desperately needed in our discipleship today is the movement from what we need God to do for us to moving out in faith on what God has already done.
When Philosophy Hates Wisdom
This way is found in Jesus, who is our wisdom and who would lead us into a wisdom worthy of our highest love and most noble aspirations—indeed the very mind of Christ, the living way of the holy Cross.
How the Way Is Made by Walking (on Water)
This walk is by grace through faith. It doesn't begin with our activity, but our receptivity.
A Warning about My Fine-Sounding Arguments
We must be generous in our posture toward others and yet we must also be discriminating about what we accept and embrace as orthodox teaching.