A victor acts a certain way and a victim another. Victors enjoy their spoils. They celebrate. They laugh. They throw parties. Victims diminish into the background, shy and reclusive for…

Most of the time God speaks to me through nudges, or promptings. They’re little ideas that pop into my head about something I might say or do, a gentle push…

When we are called to participate with Jesus we are not just given the example of Jesus. We’re given Jesus himself; he invites us to share in his nature. “Through…

The reverse-engineering of death was something Jesus often taught on, claiming that he came to turn dead hearts (hearts of stone) into living hearts (hearts of flesh). Jesus used this…

The New Heavens and the New Earth might be best understood as a kind of collision between our two worlds. There will come a time when Heaven and Earth interpenetrate…

At Westwinds this season we are teaching through a book my friend Ben Redmond has written. His book explains how to relentlessly pursue the virtue critical to a mature Christian…

For the last few months, some friends have been meeting in my office on Monday nights for a Bible study. We were tracing one particular idea through the scriptures (“why are we…