To call someone a Christian simply because he does some Christian-y things is giving false comfort to the unsaved.

God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.

Multi-tasking is keeping me from whole-hearted worship.

The fact is, Scripture is filled with divine actions that don't fit our human standards of logic or morality. But they don't need to, because we are the clay and He is the Potter. We need to stop trying to domesticate God or confine Him to tidy categories and compartments that reflect our human sentiments rather than His inexplicable ways.

The Bible teaches that true joy is formed in the midst of the difficult seasons of life.

It is easy to use the phrase 'God's will for my life' as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience. ... My hope is that instead of searching for 'God's will for my life' each of us would learn to seek hard after 'the Spirit's leading in my life today.' May we learn to pray for an open and willing heart, to surrender to the Spirit's leading with that friend, child, spouse, circumstance, or decision in our lives right now.

When loving Him becomes obligation, one of the many things we have to do, we end up focusing even more on ourselves.