Every week for more than a decade, I’ve helped lead a Bible study for students from my old high school. The school itself is academically rigorous and intentionally secular. It doesn’t allow religious meetings on campus, so students have met off campus each week for almost forty years to pray and discuss the Scriptures. I attended the group as a student and am truly grateful to be involved again...
A common question I receive from parents is, How old should my children be before I begin holding family devotions? I’ve met eager moms and dads that are ready to launch into a complete Bible study curriculum with their son or daughter who is only sixteen months old. On the other hand, other parents who desire to pass on their faith put devotions off because they don’t know when or how to begin...
In our home we use a short question to help guide our interactions with one another: Are you building up or tearing down? Meaning, do my words or actions give life or cause destruction? What am I communicating with my words, tone, facial expression, or body language? Is it building up my family? Ephesians 4:29–32 (NIV) gives us a picture of what our relationships should entail: Do not let any...
The book of Acts traces the birth of the early church from its small, inauspicious beginnings to Paul’s arrival in Rome. As Jesus predicted, the kingdom of God started small, but the power of God is still transforming and changing broken people and places. Jesus is still with us, still at work, writing a new history that moves the lives of people in every place to bring heaven to earth until that...
“What is possible in art becomes thinkable in life.” This quote from British musician Brian Eno resonated with me. I think he’s right. What is possible in the imaginary realm becomes manifest in story, the most compelling medium in human expression. And I think C. S. Lewis would agree. In a now famous account of his journey to Christ, Lewis described how a work of the imagination became manifest...
