You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.
Every heart without Christ is a mission field; Every heart with Christ is a missionary by vocation.
The Great Commission will not be fulfilled with our spare time or spare money.
All work flows from some underlying assumptions, and the content of that faith can dramatically change our expectations for our work.
One of the fundamental premises of this Bible is that the gospel changes everything. If this is true, how does the gospel change the very thing we spend most of our waking hours doing - work.
The gospel impacts the way we do our work in ways that hopefully brings a greater flourishing to our world.
Because of the gospel, God is doing a new work, and he invites us to participate in this innovative work that affects the entirety of our world.
No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow.
If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics.
Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.
Someday social media might, hopefully in some small measure, wake up to the fact that other people's failures are not your successes.