How Do You Live a Life of Faith?
What is faith? It is not a matter of feeling, and it does not act automatically. Faith must be applied. But what does this look like?
How to Live like a Berean
Do you know God’s Word as the Bereans did? Is God’s Word the final authority for your life? Are you willing to stand for truth regardless of the opposition?
The Disciplines of Jesus’ Life
Jesus lived a disciplined life, and His life is a model for believers. I’m excited to share my thoughts about this, and you can find my article over at JoshuaBontrager.com. Joshua is a friend and fellow blogger who challenges and…
An Introduction to Christian Minimalism
The Millennial generation, of which I am part, helped popularize the concept of minimalism. It is often stereotyped, touted, ridiculed, and sometimes – I’m happy to say – embraced as a method to ‘find freedom’ and live a life of…
How to Use Earthly Joy and Sorrow
1 Corinthians 7 contains principles for marriage and advice for unmarried and widowed people. Yet hidden in this chapter is an astonishing mindset for every Christian. This passage teaches us how to live in the world, and how to interact…
The City of the Great King
“Jerusalem is the city of the great King.” Thus saith the Lord, Matthew 5:35. Where is Jerusalem? Wherever a tear of longing after God fills the eye, or the knee bows at the footstool of the throne of grace; wherever…
The Home As a Fortress
The average house that is built today requires about 16,000 board feet of framing lumber[1]. That’s a lot of wood, and it does a very effective job of creating rooms, keeping the outside elements outside, and keeping us warm and…
Living Debt-Free: A Practical Roadmap
Is it possible to live a debt-free lifestyle in our modern American culture? In a culture awash in debt – from credit-card debt, to students loans and house payments, to a government that doesn’t know how to balance the budget,…
Living Debt-Free: A Biblical Pattern
America’s culture is awash in debt. From trillion-dollar government deficits to mounting credit-card loans, every aspect of society seems to be in over its head. Debt is ingrained in the American way of thinking – it is expected that you…
The Theology of Work: Work and the Gospel
The Biblical Theology of Work portrays labor as a noble, God-honoring task given to man. Viewing work only on this level, however, is superficial and misses the broader picture of work in its relationship to the Gospel of Jesus Christ….
