We are not seekers—we are fugitives. We are not confused—we are rebellious. We do not fail to follow Lady Wisdom because the path is unclear; we fail because our hearts are broken in the exact shape of Folly’s doorway.   Purposeful Complexity If you live long enough under the sun, you’ll discover that life possesses... Continue Reading

Treating people as adults is not treating people as experts. It’s assuming that if you start at the beginning and go at an appropriate pace, you can reach almost anywhere.   I fear that, without really intending to, churches have a habit of infantilising people. We should treat people like adults. My new staff team... Continue Reading

James Blythe became a supply minister to Pisgah Church [Kentucky] one Sabbath each month, ministering to the flock for forty years. He was honored with a Doctor of Divinity by Princeton University in 1815 and was a director of Princeton Seminary, 1815-1819.   James was born to James and Elizabeth Blythe in recently established Mecklenburg... Continue Reading

Go ahead, be ambitious in all things good and lawful, and all the while you are, be content at the same time for all the blessings God has given you in the present.   Ambition is something to which some Christians assign a negative intention. The thought goes: “If you are ambitious, you must be... Continue Reading

We certainly give thanks for all of our earthly blessings and all things that we have in Christ, creation and salvation. As we look to the future, we can join the heavenly chorus to thank God for His coming subjugation of the world. Thanks be to God for all that He has made, all that... Continue Reading

Four-hundred years after those brave and bold Pilgrims thanked God for His care as they built Plymouth guided by their constitution called the Mayflower Compact, this Thanksgiving Christians should celebrate God’s goodness and trust Him to continue caring for them.   Over four-hundred years after the Pilgrims celebrated God’s preservation of their lives through a... Continue Reading

These bodies of ours are perishable, dishonorable, and weak (1 Corinthians 15:42-44). Simply put, our biological clocks will wind down one day. The wrinkles around our eyes, the thinning of our hair, the soreness in our joints, and dimness of our vision betrays us. So, through a monumental act of grace, God promises to raise... Continue Reading

Let us rejoice that we are being made more and more into the likeness of Christ, and whether we are physically pleasing to look at or not, we have now, and will continue to grow in, a radiance that reflects our good and glorious Lord and that will never fade away.   Most often we... Continue Reading

The algorithm isn’t the danger. The heart is. Guard it. Shape it. Submit it to the Word. Let it be examined by Scripture, not by trends. Because in the end…the algorithm is a mirror. And if we don’t like what we see, it’s not the mirror that needs changing. It’s us.   I opened the... Continue Reading

Brothers, if we walk in sinful fear, we will miss out on the joy of faithfully fighting alongside God in the battle. But trusting Him leads to fearlessness, and fearlessness leads us to the blessing of following him into the fight again and again. It is a blessing to be faithful day after day, from... Continue Reading