Small Obedience
“As long as we expect big to come now and on the world’s terms—whether in our churches, in our cities, or in our own souls—we
“As long as we expect big to come now and on the world’s terms—whether in our churches, in our cities, or in our own souls—we
Numerous studies have been done, such as one from Duke University, that have found that prayer helps with healing and recovery (Cabell Smith, “Prayer and
In the book Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret, Taylor is famously quoted as having said, “Christ is either Lord of all, or is not Lord at
In a moving scene in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Jyn Erso asks the rebels to join her in fighting an unwinnable battle. Despite
Father Damien was a Belgian priest who went to serve in what was considered a godforsaken place—the island of Molokai, where Hawaiians with Hansen’s disease
At the outset of the film The Princess Bride, a poor farm boy named Westley is constantly ordered around by Buttercup. She tells him to
A great illustration of not doing what we should be doing is seen in small children. Tantrums, which are caused by a number of different
“The joke is told of the deacon whose property adjoined that of a golf course. One Sunday morning he decided to skip church and take
In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C.S. Lewis tells the story o fEustace Scrubb, who turns into a dragon as the result of his
Imagine children in a home being told to pick up. They’ll fight the parent over it. They don’t want to do it. But the minute
In “Letter from Jim,” Garrison Keillor tells the story of a man with a PhD in classics who, after years of teaching at the local
In the novel The Secret History by Donna Tartt, a group of affluent college students decide to murder a close friend of theirs. As the
The commandment to honor your father and mother of course gets tricky when you have abusive or manipulative parents. It is important to read the
Sometimes unexpected resistance can stop us from doing something God has asked us to do. Isn’t that the way it always is when you start
On CBS’s long-running reality show Survivor, cast members play a game of outlasting their teammates on an island devoid of creature comforts. Weeks later, when
We don’t have to look outside the walls to see the negative consequences of self-control on society—God shows us that in the Bible. One example
Like Thanos putting on the infinity gauntlet and saying, “Fine. I’ll do it myself” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu_hw963AG4), we like to take the reins and make our ideas
“So Abram went, as the LORD had told him” ( Genesis 12:4). This is the demonstration of faith that the author of Hebrews, as well
A good way of discussing holiness is to understand how it is a gift from God to us so that all of our energies can
There is a parable many of us are familiar with in Luke 6, about two men who build houses for themselves. One builds on the