There were a few years around college I couldn’t stomach Paul. He had been thrown into my face too many times. And I couldn’t hear the Old Testament without questions about God’s goodness staring at me. But, Jesus? I was…
This is a point that I, a pitcher pourer, am trying to discern and one I could not have made better: “As we have conversations with curious people, we should be sensitive to what level of interest they actually have. Tuvya Zaretsky, a…
We are traveling through five thresholds using the book, i once was lost, trying to understand the way people today come to faith. We stopped and learned around the first threshold, From Mistrust to Trusting a Christian and now on…
She filled her prayer closet with a grid of sticky notes, covered the walls with God’s promises. This is unconditional love, cross-shaped evangelism if I’ve ever seen it. This mother’s story cannot help but inspire you. If you have 10…
The indoor-sanctioned rubber ball left his foot and I could see right where it was headed, like he was doing target practice. Caedmon has serious power for an eight year old and it slammed into the glass, sent it scraping across…
On Sundays during Lent, we slow to a stop. No more working, no more spinning, just rest. Deep breaths leaning in. Because He stopped and knows we need to too. So come to the well to be refilled, and don’t…
You friend, if you are like me, you struggle with this too. We knee-jerk away from our “persons” when we encounter blatant mistrust, like in the first threshold moving from mistrust to trusting a Christian. Get a copy of a…
I Once Was Lost: What Postmodern Skeptics Taught Us About Their Path to Jesus by Don Everts and Doug Schaupp wipes away the confusion of good news bearing in today’s suspicious environment. Skepticism is the undercurrent with a hefty helping…
We in the church have got something to confess. And it’s pretty ugly. But ugly things have to come into the light in order to be transformed. Evangelism has been used by some to be an answer to…
I’ve done it all wrong. In my haste to see friends discover good news, I’ve pushed when I should have listened, gotten defensive (cough, I mean used apologetics) when I should have stayed placid, handed out Christian books before…