Discipleship

Why Memory Is Faith's Greatest Enemy I was watching the news the other morning, and all along the Guadalupe River in Texas, there were these makeshift memorials that had been erected overnight. People instinctively creating something to remember those who had passed...

Growing up in church, I remember hearing people talk about faith all the time. It was this nebulous, hard-to-grasp concept that seemed important but felt impossible to pin down. What does faith actually look like? What does it mean in practical terms? Joshua 1:10-18...

Lessons from Joshua I was reading about Polycarp while preparing for the sermon this week. Polycarp was an 86-year-old bishop who faced down Roman flames rather than deny Christ. When they offered him freedom if he'd just say "Caesar is Lord," he famously replied, "86...

What Joshua Teaches Us About True Freedom Even when the Isrealites had their freedom, what did they long for? The days of old in Egypt, even though those were miserable... God had to work that slave mentality out of His people. Have you ever noticed how we can...

Lessons from Joshua In December 1912, a frail 72-year-old missionary named Charlotte "Lottie" Moon was quietly carried aboard a steamship, malnourished and weighing only 50 pounds. She had given away all her food during a famine in northern China, where she had served...

Trusting God with Complex Problems Human beings naturally desire justice. When we experience or witness wrongdoing, something within us craves resolution. We want to see things set right. This deep-seated desire reflects our creation in God's image, as He is the...