When God tells us to give extravagantly, we can trust Him to do the same in our lives. And this is really the core issue of it all. Do we trust Him? Do we trust Jesus when He tells us to give radically for the sake of the poor? Do we trust Him to provide for us when we begin using the resources He has given us to provide for others? Do we trust Him to know what is best for our lives, our families, and our financial futures?

Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.

This extremely shocking and utterly revolutionary call is the essence of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus: we are not called to simply believe certain points or observe certain practices, but ultimately to cling to the person of Christ as life itself.

If you claim to be a follower of Christ, I encourage you to consider your present commitment to a local church.

The resources of heaven are ready and waiting for the people of God who desire to make much of him in this world

We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, 'No.'

We assume that our race simply deserves heaven; that God owes heaven to us unless we do something really bad to warrant otherwise.