Each of us has to choose who will call the shots when we face threats and feel fear. If we allow anxiety to be the boss, we’ll slide into God-dishonoring, self-destructive behavior. But if we turn to God and express our desires to Him, His peace will protect us from unhinged thoughts and feelings so…
It’s on US as Christians to back up our claims of seeing life “right-side up.” We can do this by expressing our delight in Jesus even when our circumstances are terrible, and by creating safe places for hurting people to run to when they are in trouble. These kind of choices make our testimony of…
Sharp disagreements happen in church all the time, even between believers who are very committed to Jesus and to His mission. Upside-down thinking wants us to react to this by pulling away from one another, but Paul challenges us all to stay together long enough to resolve our differences, with the help of the church,…
If Jesus didn’t really die, or if He really didn’t come back from the dead, the entire Christian message falls apart.
If Jesus didn’t really die, or if He really didn’t come back from the dead, the entire Christian message falls apart.
We are all pursuing something, either our immediate satisfaction or our ultimate transformation. Paul challenges us to make our life’s pursuit to be “Me 2.0” in God’s eternal kingdom. If we are going to do this, it will require us to think differently; we have to be humble, refuse to get stuck in the past,…