Mental Health Meets Faith
For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven. A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant and a time to harvest. A time to kill and a time to heal. A time to tear down and a time to build up. A time to cry and a time to laugh. A time to grieve and a time to dance. A time to scatter stones […]
Doubt. We have all dealt with it at one time or another. Suddenly, the things you were so sure about don’t seem so sure anymore. You’re left with questions and you’re left feeling confused. I have found this to be a huge area of struggle for people where it concerns their faith in Jesus. Especially, for individuals in their mid to late twenties. For the first time, they have begun asking themselves the hard questions […]
This is the conclusion of the “Be the Church” series. I felt like it was appropriate to end things with this verse from Acts 20:24 “However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me- the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.” In order to be the church, we need to make the Gospel […]
One of the most amazing things about the first church was the remarkable level of unity they demonstrated. It tells us in Acts 4:32 that the believers were one in heart and mind and that no one claimed any of his possessions as his own, but rather they shared everything they had. A fellow brother or sister in Christ would never be in lack, because they were covered by their church family. This unity wasn’t limited […]
Sometimes we can have a pretty limited understanding of what church is. Most people view it in this context: Sunday mornings I go to a building and listen to the pastor talk about God. I call this place church. That is church, but church is also so much more. Believe it or not, having a building or a pastor are ideas people added to church life, but they aren’t what church is about. Now, don’t […]
Being the church means that we are led by the Holy Spirit that lives within us. As followers of Jesus, we live in the constant tension of following our natural inclination and what seems to be logical and following the leading of God. As we grow in our journey with Jesus, seeking His face and reading His Word, we learn more and more to recognize what His voice sounds like. We learn which of the […]
Yesterday, I wrote about how being the church means that we go to the broken. Today, I’m going to write about the importance of making room for everyone. What do I mean by that? Just outside the doors of our churches are communities of hurting people that have tried church before and have given up. They felt like there was no room in our assemblies for someone who didn’t talk like us, dress like us, […]
Yesterday, I explained my reasoning for writing this series on being the church. If you haven’t had the chance to read it yet, please do so here! Basically, the aim of this series is to discover what it really means to be the church based on the book of Acts. So here goes! Being the church means that you go. You go. You don’t stand still. You don’t stay in the same spot. You’re not […]
Lately, I have been doing alot of thinking about church. Not my church, or your church, or any church in particular, but the church in general as a collective whole. We live in a post-modern world that holds in high-esteem values that are anti-biblical. People tend to shy away from a belief in absolute truth, believing instead that everything is relative. According to many the highest meaning you can achieve in life is to make […]
What are you waiting for? We are all waiting for something. Waiting for things to change, waiting for things to get better, waiting for someone to care, waiting for someone to love. If your anything like me, you’re waiting for the next step and wondering, when is it coming? What is it going to look like? What will it lead to? How will I know? “Until God opens the next door, praise Him in the […]