How many of us are building impressive structures on unstable soil?

If you interact with humans, plan to give them a margin of grace. They’ll need it sometimes.

Quiet spaces where we can hear God’s voice are not necessarily safe spaces. God is not tame.

Our work is to discover who we are in Christ and to become students of a culture defined by Christ.

Do you want to make beautiful ministry music? Practice your scales.

The four stages of cultural adjustment can apply to the Kingdom too.

As Christians, it matters how we present ourselves to the world. We are not ashamed of Christ and the Gospel. Yet we become all things to all people in order to save some.

However bad the bad news may be, the Gospel is greater.

The deepest part of a valley often comes with a stream. Be refreshed there, then step across and you’ll be moving out of that valley.

If the wrong people advocate for the right things, can we cheer them on?

Looking more closely at the account of Jesus washing the Disciples’ feet.

The ‘sight’ that is by faith is a different kind of sight. It involves the imagination.

The life of a believer is a life of surrender. But surrender to whom?

Help people test themselves. But do it in a way that’s safe for them and others.

Discipleship is highly personal and individual. Group approaches can go only so far. Human leaders are finite but God is unlimited in his capacity.

Different people need different approaches to discipleship. Not like the way ‘some people’ do their laundry in college.

Have you noticed there are pharisees who live one way and heap heavy burdens on others? They can be a stumbling block to those who want to do the right thing from the heart.

We need to live in a bubble — but in a bubble with lots of edge that interfaces with the world.

Feeding the sheep should be more about care than academic instruction.

We are to notice the weak, the powerless, the marginalized. Then care for them.