Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? —Matthew 6:26

How sex became the fault line of American politics

You were right to leave church for that.

Just like following Paul’s sexual ethic to the Corinthian church would make the Christians unpopular in Corinth, so too does a biblical sexual ethic make American churches unpopular in the ever-shifting tides of American culture.

Ever wondered why a book that doesn’t even mention God’s name is in the Bible?

If we have all of the knowledge in the world—enough to move mountains—and yet we do not have love, then the best apologist for the Christian faith suddenly becomes one of the worst adversaries of the gospel.

The songs we sing back to God should, of course, be honest. But, they should also be holy—as God is holy. How do we strike the balance between honesty and reverence?

I’m sorry to be the one to have to tell you about all of this, but this is the world our children are growing up in and it's the one we currently live in. And if we can’t talk about any of it in the church, then others will. And the consequences of our silence won't be pretty.

People get in debates about the mission of the church and talk about it in really abstract ways. Sometimes this leads to people saying or thinking, “The church should just preach the gospel.” Well, should it?

Why we should talk about sex more than we do.

Jesus is telling Peter, and is charging Christian leaders with something a whole lot more challenging than crossing off a ministry checklist. True leadership is not just what you do but how you go about doing it.

True leadership does not demand and take. True leadership serves and gives.