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...