Our sin is toxic. Our sin is so toxic that it has effects on us, even after the fact. Look to Psalm 32:3a: Our natural response to sin is to […]

James 5:16Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. Who do you confess […]

As a youth pastor, something deeply saddens me when I ask people to consider serving in youth group. It’s the response I usually get as to why someone can’t… “I […]

Do you remember full-service gas stations? You know, the kind that you bring your car to the gas pump and someone comes out to fill up your vehicle, check your […]

If you’re anything like me, you might have song lyrics swirling around in your brain most of the time. So when I began thinking about what the concept of serving […]

Out of all the spiritual disciplines that we will talk about in 2024, the one that I am most confident Christians know how to do is service. Service is what we […]

How do we find silence and solitude in a world that only wants to distract us?  The need to be “plugged in” has become not only habit, but a lifestyle […]

“The simplest spiritual discipline is some degree of solitude and silence. But it’s the hardest, because none of us want to be with someone we don’t love. Besides that, we […]

When I look back over my day every evening, I often judge whether my day was a success or a failure based off of how efficient I was that day. […]

I am an extroverted relational verbal processor. When it came time for me to write a blog on silence and solitude, the first thing I have to admit is that […]