It's no wonder then that when our flesh is leading, we tend to parent through reacting to events vs. being proactive through the process of our children's sanctification.

By focusing first on who God is and what he's done, we're able to see who we really are in Christ. When we truly submit to the realities of the gospel, then this new identity orients what we do!

In an epoch where everyone is a pundit, it seems that so many are stubbornly content with SCREAMING their opinions whilst willfully ignoring bipartisan, fruitful, and well intended discourse.

Distracted, obligatory, ordinary — I doubt any such words came across Moses’s mind as he ascended the mountain. But some three thousand years later, we rarely marvel that God permits imperfect humans into his presence.

Do we not recognize a problem exists whenever we label a church planter as being innovative, creative, or unusual for following a Pauline model?

How can we ever measure how we are growing as disciples and submitting all of our lives to Christ if we aren't living amongst each other and celebrating, suffering, and sharing together more than just once a week?