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

I think Christians in America have largely accepted the terms of “freedom of indifference.” We think of freedom as being able to do what we like. Any parameters given to us are casually dismissed as archaic “law,” irrelevant to following Jesus...

Submission is a frightful word to our ears, steeped as we are in the gospel of self. But there is perhaps no more crucial discipline to a life of real gospel liberation, learning to submit to God, leaders, and ultimately to be subject to one another. Rebel against your own individualism, and follow Jesus into a life of self-emptying, God-glorifying service...

One of the worst tricks I ever saw pulled in my days of youth camp was when some friends of mine sneaked into another boys’ room and staged a sort of demonic break-in. They turned his Bible to page 666, drew pentagrams, and used every Hollywood cliché we had at our disposal to make it seem real. For kids who grew up like we did, these were ideas that were alternately familiar and exotic...

As I’m preaching through the “essential” practices of a life with God, it has caused me to do a lot of reflection on why it is that so many professing Christians remain deeply unfulfilled in their own experience of spiritual disciplines. I very rarely meet a follower of Jesus who seems content that they are praying enough, reading enough, fasting enough, etc. There is always this crushing sense that I should be doing more...