Cooking is a journey to be savored. It’s about exploring the possibilities to be found on the way to delicious. Some days we become so focused on the end goal that we miss opportunities along the way. Learning to balance the need for experimentation and the need to achieve goals is a skill that ne...

"And then we artists who are trying to be God's speakers do a worse job than the atheists. Maybe it's because it's hard to be as steely real as one needs to be writing about God and his people when you are at the same time unconsciously wanting to be God's spin meister." --an insightful comment by a...

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From The Rest of the Gospel: When the partial Gospel has worn you out by Dan Stone: The Bible calls the false self flesh. But flesh carries a negative connotation that can mislead us as to its real meaning. Paul wrote to the Galatians: “Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality...

Frank Turk at Pyromaniacs asks whether we are aspiring to have our pastors say of us, what Paul had said of his congregents: "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope, to Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Fathe...

In his blog article Joyful, Serious Church Life Together , John Piper sets forth a new plan to incorporate a Relational Commitments Statement as part of the covenant vows made when receiving new members. In addition to the wisdom in this approach, there is an incredible illustration on pages 3 and 4...

Dieting in any form is just so hard to live by and more often than not, we just eat what we crave. It doesn’t help that pigging out is so much fun, especially if you take a nap after. But in our world where beauty is measured with a weighing scale, we have to be very smart about our routines. ...

Jesus with their lips and then walk out the door and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable." - Brennan Manning "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." - Sir Winston Churchill, with thanks to Will "Why is that to ma...

The suffering of Job and the cosmic battle that ensues with satan is commonly seen as a testing of Job’s faith. What I think we sometimes forget is – or at least I sometimes forget – that it is not only in suffering that our faith is tested. In fact, we see in scripture many times, many exampl...

From The Rest of the Gospel: When the partial gospel has worn you out by Dan Stone: It is not your striving that releases Christ's life through you. It is your trusting . . . . What's good news to us now isn't just that he died for us, though that is good news. It isn't just that He's with us, thoug...