Practical Lessons for Intentionally Living Like Jesus
Goals are highly overrated. In today’s culture, we love them. With each New Year, we set endless goals for ourselves because we love stories of people who set goals, overcome odds, and reach them. These stories inspire us to change our lives as well. But much of the reason we love goals is because our […]
Lately, I’ve been feeling a strange tension in my life. I wonder if you feel it too. It’s the tension between my career/external life and my character/internal life. On the outside, my career is flourishing. I’m getting new business, receiving new opportunities, and growing at an incredibly fast rate. On the other side is my […]
I believe our sense of meaning, value, and satisfaction with our daily lives rests on one of two ideas: either we are doing too little or we are doing too much with our days. If I had to guess what the case for you is, I would guess the latter is true. Such is the […]
Stories inspire our life—but so often we listen to the wrong stories purely because of their abundance. This is troublesome, especially when it comes to our expectations on dating, love, & beauty. Because messages on love are circulating all around us in the media, it’s possible to let these messages seep into our love life […]
It’s time we face the truth: Christians, we do not live like Jesus all the time. And while this is okay, what’s not okay is when we adopt the posture of a bully instead. Sometimes when we are left to our own devices about how to express our conviction, we can be mean about it. […]
This is a guest post by Debra Fileta. You can guest post too by clicking here. W.W.J.D.? Remember the epidemic that swept across the nation years ago, calling men and women of all ages to ask themselves, “What Would Jesus Do?” While I’m all for becoming more like Jesus, I think this phrase can […]
After a series of debates have rocked our culture in the past few years, one thing is apparent: the Church is losing her cultural influence. People today are more cynical of Christianity and its adherents, which poses the question: how can we be effective disciples when culture is increasingly dismissing Christianity? As more and more […]