We can stop pleading with God to show us the future, and start living and obeying like we are confident that He holds the future.

Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and spiritual disciplines are necessary for the cultivation of holiness, the pattern of piety in the Scripture is more explicitly about our character. We put off sin and put on righteousness. We put to death the deeds of the flesh and put on Christ. To use the older language, we pursue mortification of the old man and the vivification of the new.

We take hold of Christ as his words take hold us.

Tolerance is a relatively weak virtue; we're called to so much more than that in the body of Christ.

God is not a magic eight ball we shake up and peer into whenever we have a decision to make. He is a good God who gives us brains, shows us the way of obedience, and invites us to take risks for him.

Jesus was not just a prophet but the fulfillment of all prophecy.

Just about everybody in America likes Jesus, but few like him for who he truly is.