Why do we have such a hard time living among non-Christians and loving them into the kingdom? From Martyn Lloyd-Jones: Once a man has the love of Christ in his heart you need not train him to witness; he will do it. He will know the power, the constraint, the motive; everything is already there. It ...

Jerram Barrs on why he went on faculty at Covenant Seminary 20 years ago: "I came to teach at Covenant because I felt constrained by the Lord to be of some service in helping men and women who are going into ministry to love non-Christians rather than to be afraid of them, to delight in buildin...

The Mark Driscoll national media tour continues - NYT Magazine, Nightline and now he's on CNN this weekend with comedian DL Hughley. What I liked about this exchange is that Mark was able to take a dude who's going to approach a topic like sex flippantly and get his respect and open the door to a co...

Grace withers without adversity. The devil is little more than God's drill sergeant, teaching us to handle our weapons. - Adapted from Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ, 1909....

'...it seemed good to me...to write an orderly account...that you may have certainty...' (Luke 1:3-4) Everyone struggles with doubt. No one should want to stay there. Because of Christ, no one has to stay there. May that hope make us compassionate and courageous in 2009....

One bright morning a boy rushed to get up and get out to the beach. There had been a terrible storm the night before and he could just imagine all the treasures which had washed ashore during the night. When the boy got to the beach he was amazed to see the beach covered with thousands of starfish. ...

I've been having some trouble sleeping lately. My mind just won't seem to give it a rest. But, this has allowed me some wonderful God-given quiet to process a lot of what has happened here to my dear, sweet girls. On two different nights, I was awakened with thoughts that I knew I needed to ...

The early church was vibrant and alive. Individual Christians were gladly taking the initiative to accomplish any good work. One example of this is a disciple from Joppa named Tabitha, who returned to life when the Apostle Peter visited her and prayed for her. Luke reports that she “was always doi...

Perhaps Da Vinci said it best, "While I thought I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die." This describes our unbelievable journey the past two weeks. In our last update we told you that we would probably be leaving Stockholm by next May to an unknown destination due to ...

This post from Tim Chester is really quite helpful. It's one thing to join God in his mission of putting broken things back together, but it seems off to say that the way we do that is by 'becoming Jesus' to our particular context. Tim does an excellent job of explaining why this approach at least h...