We talked with a young pastor yesterday. He’s planting a church and populating it with people he leads to Christ. So where are all these new believers coming from? Normal conversations. What kind of conversations? Out comes the napkin and a marker, and then he talks us through the following sketch: It goes like this. […]
The wisdom in suffering
On the cover of The End of Suffering, by Scott Cairns, is a quote that goes like this: The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering, but a supernatural use for it. — Simone Weil There’s an ocean of truth in that statement, and […]
What’s more manly than attitude?
[ . . . ] speak louder than words. Tis [ . . . ] that makes the hero. “Everyone who hears these words of Mine and [ . . . ] on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock” (Matthew 7:24; NASB). If attitude reveals the […]
Dealing with attitude
Put a young guy in a fast car with good friends and thunderous music, and what does it spell? Attitude. Strutting, shoving, chest-butting, trash-talking, risk-taking, death-defying, arrogance-wreaking attitude. Attitude is influence. It commands a response and gets what it wants. (Or, sometimes, what it deserves.) The funny thing is . . . it’s vapor. It neither […]
How to love a student
It’s crazy — most parents love their kids so much they’d sacrifice their own lives if it would help their kids love God, avoid injury, escape pain, and so on. We love our kids. Meanwhile, our kids don’t always feel the love. Why is that? In his updated edition of The Five Love Languages of […]
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