For Believers Looking to Grow in Their Walk with Christ
These articles and free download will help you grow in your walk with Christ. The download gives you a visual of the core components of an obedient Christian’s life in Christ. It was originally created by the Navigators and has helped thousands of people. We’re confident it will also help you as you grow deeper in your relationship with God.
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” – 1 Peter 1:14-16 (MSG)
How Your Online Addiction Can Lead to Healing
What if I told you that your use of pornography could reveal your way to healing? As a licensed mental health counselor and ordained minister, I’ve seen firsthand that sexual…
What a Prostitution Survivor Taught Me About Joy
I worked for a community mental health clinic in downtown Seattle for the first two years after graduate school. The clients at this location were considered the most severely traumatized…
How to Make the Lord’s Prayer Your Prayer
I have a friend who sums up the Lord’s Prayer this way: “Simply pray, and pray simply.” Don’t overcomplicate it. Don’t smother it in “should.” Don’t make it some sort…
How To Rise Above Discouragement
While I was general director of the Overseas Missionary Fellowship, on one occasion I was to go to a conference of our missionaries in one of our fields. It was a…
The Wrong Reasons For Memorizing Scripture
Here are the top 7 wrong reasons to memorize scripture: Because the group does it and demands it. One man I know confessed to his businessmen’s group, “I was memorizing…
The Container of the Uncontainable God
On a clear winter day a few years ago, I went with my friend Claire to visit a small chapel near the western edge of the walls that centuries ago…
NBA Star A.C. Green is Free to Be Faithful, and You Can Be Too
We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin. For when…
The Beautiful and Terrifying Silence You Need
Tramping through the snow, I stop for a moment. Everything around me is perfectly still. Only my footprints break the surface of the pure, white snow, and even these are…
What Sacred Questions are You Asking this Advent Season?
Jesus knows you, loves you, and longs for you to ask sacred questions. God could, had He pleased, have been incarnate in a man of iron nerves, the Stoic sort…
The Right PACE to Develop Community Leaders
One of the biggest changes a church must make is committing to know the community in humble and contextual ways. Doing this will take a little bit of work. I…