If someone says something or does something that hurts you, what is the godly response?…
Last summer, a driving goal of mine was to create space to experience God through…
We want to be optimistic. It’s just not always easy. John Mark Comer knows all…
When I was a kid, I learned very quickly that every good Christian “takes everything…
RELEVANT tackles the topic of fasting, looking at the physical, emotional and spiritual results of the ancient discipline.
As a pastor, I have been asked countless times, “How do I hear from God?”…
It’s common for us to say we want to do something, and even make a…
Have you ever had a conversation with a friend that quickly reveals some truth about…
It was almost five years ago that I first broke up with alcohol. Like many…
John Backman writes about passages of Scripture that find Jesus behaving remarkably human, and why these stories shouldn’t unsettle us, but comfort us.
A faith of isolation has nothing prophetic or revolutionary to offer to a world of…
For all the ways that grace is essential to our faith, it’s also one of…
Whether you’ve been around Christianity for years or are new to faith, you probably know…
Anyone who has gone to church for any amount of time has likely noticed a…
Easter is the ideal time to reflect upon the concepts of transgressions and forgiveness. Forgiveness…
Community is revolutionary. When we bring it to a rolling boil, lives change and plans foment that ripple around the world. But it’s hard to cook up community from scratch in middle-class North America. Some days, just getting to know the neighbors on your street can feel like trying to get the wave going at a football game while everybody stares at you from their seats. Still, we go on believing that God made people—all of us, no matter your Myers-Briggs profile type—to need other people. So we need to figure out how to break our ruts of commuting, watching Hulu, and consuming Hot Pockets alone. And we couldn’t have better guides on how to do this than Adam and Christine Jeske.
Faith has always been a challenging word for me. I was a philosophy major, not…
Drawing the line between discernment and discretion.
Seventeenth-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal once observed, “The sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that…
Christians use some odd terms. You know what I’m talking about—churchy words like “the aisle”…
There is a picture sitting beside my bed that I have held dear for nearly…
“Love is patient…” “But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait…
You went on that date and thought you both had a good time. But days…
When Nathan was 13, he tried out for the middle school boy’s basketball team. At…
Maybe you already know the Lord, but the way you know Him isn’t working for…
When Jesus saw a paralyzed man sitting by a fountain, He asked something I initially…
Christmas truly is the most wonderful time of the year, because it calls our attention…
Everyone has heard the saying “WWJD”, right? What would Jesus do? You’ve heard it preached,…
From age 22 to 23, I lived in England. I was there for graduate school,…
The following account is a sadly true and embarrassing story about me. I hope none…
Prayer remains a mystery. Nobody argues disagrees about that. We don’t ultimately know all the…
I was sitting on a hillside in Israel when I first believed God loved me. …
Technology has forever changed the waiting game. Thanks to Amazon and Apple, we can walk…
If you’ve ever been to the top of a mountain, you know nothing quite beats…
It’s not a secret: We don’t like failure. We like success. We crave it. We…
If you do little things like they’re big things, God will do big things like…
For the first four decades of my life—and please try to squelch any envy you…
What do you want to do? Who do you want to be? Where do you…