Dismantling the Rising Sacred-Secular Divide

Body

“’Raise your hand if you’re going into full-time ministry…. You all should be raising your hands.’ He was charging the business majors, biology majors, communications, and education majors, among others, to view their future work—whatever it was to be—as ministry” - IFWE

Discussion

Are Christians supposed to be happy?

Body

“some Christians, in the name of moral obligation, wear frowns, dutifully living a paint-by-the-numbers religious existence, and proudly refraining from what ‘lesser’ people do to be happy. They seem to wear their displeasure as a badge of honor.” - Randy Alcorn

Discussion

Leave the Throne of Guilt: Three Better Reasons to Pray

Body

“Calloused knees. Prayer closet. Answered prayers. Prayer warrior. These four phrases don’t exactly trigger me with spiritual PTSD, but they do represent markers in my journey of moving from prayer-guilt into the grace of praying.” - Desiring God

Discussion

Rest Takes Work

Body

“My planning had gone as far as to block the time off but not as far as to figure out what I would do instead. I freed up a solid 40 hours between 9 and 5, but didn’t put anything in its place.” - Challies

Discussion

Taking Advantage or Caring?

(First posted in 2011)

Aesop told the tale of the Peasant and the Apple Tree.

Discussion