Oct 31, 2018
Colossians warns us of a danger we rarely notice. "Philosophies"--ways of thinking--threaten to take us captive. Whether it's "Follow Your Bliss" or modern secularism, or another mindset altogether, these human ways of understanding ourselves and this world can ruin us, because they can pull us away from Christ. When...
Oct 24, 2018
When we find ourselves in "the dip" we are uniquely vulnerable to temptation. We can experience physical temptations, disillusionment, and the desire to give up on our faith altogether. The truth the Colossians gives us to battle these is that there is inexpressible glory and joy found in Christ for those who wait...
Oct 17, 2018
Business guru Seth Godin speaks of the difficulty of "the dip." When we set out to accomplish something, if it's anything of significance, we will eventually come to a point in time when the effort we invest does not seem to yield any progress or success. We are faced with a decision. Is this a dead end, where we...
Oct 10, 2018
Our world is tearing apart because we've lost our true center. We're not as important as we think we are, and Christ is far more important than we possibly can imagine. God shows his unimaginable love for us by in Christ renovating this broken world, renovating us, that all things in Christ might become what they were...
Oct 3, 2018
Our greatest problem, and the central reason we do not grow, has to do with our center. As long as we maintain a sense of entitlement, as long as we see ourselves as the center of our own lives, our souls will be sick. Wholeness comes only as "self" recedes from the center of our lives and Christ, who is the center of...