I’d preached what seemed like dozens of applications on being the church, but nothing sizable happened until I preached with love, and members seized the opportunity to then walk in love.

Beloved congregants, would you pray for your pastors? Pray for their hearts…Fellow pastors, beware of the danger of the ordinary Sunday. Protect your heart.

Make space to grieve, but watch for the ways Jesus faithfully shows up in those deep moments of grief.

Our time in prayer gives us the incredible gift of humbly gazing on God’s power, victory, and glory already present in each of our days.

God isn’t asking you to be strong enough to handle everything. He’s asking you to trust that he’s near even in the mess.

Fasting doesn’t save us or make us holy, but it is a tool to glorify God in our lives. When used properly, it humbles us, trains us in obedience, and trains us in faith.

The aim of the pastor is to make God’s people faithful followers of Jesus who embody the Christian message of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.

I want to spend this brief time pleasing the one who could destroy me but has instead chosen to rescue me.

Maybe it’s in our deepest valleys and most broken places where Jesus meets us—not with relief or by pulling us out of our pain and suffering, but by simply holding us close, holding our faith.

Including, “If you try to preach to everyone, you end up preaching to no one.”

“Begin with the end in mind,” we tell parents. And that end is often described as an empty nest and an independent child. But is that mantra more American than it is biblical?

When we read our Bibles each day and no angels dance on the page, when we pray and the walls of a prison do not shake, and when we speak and revival does not break out, that’s okay.