Here are 5 practical ideas to help you embed the spiritual disciplines into every aspect of your ministry...

This whole exercise has pushed me further to think about the nature of my own faith, which by no means seems irrational to me, but is decidedly trans-rational...

It might sound strange to admit as a Pastor that it took me many years to have a sense of what it means for Jesus to be at the absolute center of Christian faith the way He is in the creed...

Yet beyond all of this, there are those of us who have caught a glimpse of a Jesus that could not be easily labeled or glibly dismissed...

God created man in his own image. We are hellbent on creating Jesus in ours. Even worse than Jesus American Idol is Jesus Mr. Potatohead, where we take some parts of one Jesus we like and some parts of another and giddily patch them together as we see fit...

The greatest threat to the gospel in the first century was this kind of body denying religion, wherein God is comfortably confined to a place called heaven...

In the interest of full disclosure, I’m giving up my little black book. Names and numbers are attached, secret rendezvous are revealed. I plead guilty to all charges...

A day of community and good work thaws my icy soul, so that I’m aware of the paradoxical tenderness of the hunter like a low-grade headache. I feel the tenderness creep in as I go through the day...

This is the third time in the last year our church has embarked on a week of night and day, communal prayer. And of all of them, my time at 24/7 was decidedly my worst. I woke up on the wrong side of the bed Wednesday morning...

What makes it interesting is that their acknowledgment of evil and suffering never overrode their fundamental belief in God as the maker...

I have no idea what Daniel Lanois believes about Jesus. There are few artists making music as deeply spiritual or achingly beautiful as Lanois...

I do think the way I believe in God is fundamentally Pentecostal. That’s a way of saying my belief is more a product of being assaulted by God than convinced of God...

Like so many of the women and men who have said this creed before me, my belief in God is much more fundamental, even more primal, than many of these debates suggest...

Over against the rationalistic terms that came to dominate conversations surrounding Christian faith in the 20th century, the apostle’s creed concedes nothing to the language of defensibility. Here is a brash, audaciously simple claim that there is no reality, no apologetic, no system more fundamental than God...