“Let him do it himself.” I remember saying that when my boys were younger (and “her” for my girls) and even sometimes today as they transition into adulthood. Kids need to learn to do things that are developmentally appropriate. When we do everything for our kids, we...
Recently, I searched Amazon for book titles including the words “power” and “prayer.” I scrolled through a few hundred titles that used words like “incredible,” “secret,” “healing,” “prospering,” “transforming,” “dangerous,” even “atomic” to describe the power of...
Unified Identity “They have a church for every type of person—from background, ethnicity, to where you shop, if you buy organic or you’re white bread people. The number of churches there to choose from is amazing.” I heard this in a conversation with someone about the...
It has been said that “Sunday morning is the most segregated day of the week.” While I am not sure who to credit with first saying it, that reality is certainly still true today. According to the Bible, this is a problem. Ephesians 2:11-22 is one of the...
Tim Keller in his article “The Centrality of the Gospel” writes: We never “get beyond the gospel” in our Christian life to something more “advanced.” The gospel is not the rst “step” in a “stairway” of truths; rather, it is more like the “hub” in a “wheel” of truth....
In Ephesians, Paul writes to an established group of believers seeking to live lives that bring glory and honor to Jesus Christ. He praises God for them, especially for their faith in Jesus and their love for the saints, then lifts up a prayer on their behalf. He...
