Every pastor needs what I call “true north” values—core convictions we refuse to compromise even when external pressures tempt us to do so.
“Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good” (Romans 12:21).
When love is missing from the equation, we focus on the outcome at the expense of the people.
Good fruit leaves a great taste in your mouth and leaves you wanting more. But how do you get good fruit?
Your decisions simply are the spontaneous overflow of all that you have learned and stored, and that process is fashioned by repetition, repetition, repetition.
Did you know God is in the soul restoration business?
I want to grow strong in my faith over the years so that even in my later years, I'm still producing fruit, vital and green.
Life with Jesus calms our chaotic souls.
When life shakes us, what fruit is revealed?
I suggest five ways to deepen your integrity from the book of Daniel.
Would you allow anything to stand between you and Jesus?
Many of us disentangle the secular from the spiritual, even if just a little.
When this world wounds you, don’t you sometimes muse, “Lord, I think I want to come home now”?
How do we carry out this great commission in our everyday lives?
We could call it perseverance, determination, gumption, faithfulness.
There are certain people that are just happy all the time. And then there’s me. And probably you.
What are your best next steps?
Do you ever feel ordinary?
The following is an ancient, classic story. It is somewhat of a parable from yesteryear.
“You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you” (John 15:16, NIV).
