Put Your Leaders to the Test
It all comes back to Jesus. Jesus is the Truth. If we don’t comprehend and confess the truth about the Truth, we are sitting ducks for false teachers.
May 21, 2025•18 min
The Wake-Up Call
The Wake-Up Call is a daily encouragement to shake off the slumber of our busy lives and turn our eyes toward Jesus. Each morning our community gathers around a Scripture, a reflection, a prayer, and a few short questions, inviting us to reorient our lives around the love of Jesus that transforms our hearts, homes, churches, and cities.
Episodes
How Condemnation Works and Why It Loses
This path of persistent confession is the only pathway by which we are set free of the condemnation we heap on ourselves.
May 20, 2025•21 min
Why You Shouldn't Trust Your Conscience
Truth is ever asking the question, Is our inward reality of love becoming the outward activity of love?
May 19, 2025•18 min
Seeing Life from the Perspective of Eternity (Psalm 49)
The psalmist didn’t fully know how God would redeem him from death, but he knew that if we were united to an eternal God, then he must have a plan for us.
May 18, 2025•12 min
People Need Help, Not Pity
The big issue isn’t whether we are helping people in need; it’s whether our hearts are truly open to those we are helping.
May 17, 2025•23 min
Why the Rest of the Gospel Is the Best of the Gospel
Nothing is more beautiful or winsome or powerful than people laying down their interests and agendas and needs and desires for the best interests of others.
May 16, 2025•20 min
Are You Saved? How Do You Know?
In other words, loving one another is not the condition for salvation but the evidence of it.
May 15, 2025•23 min
Aiming for Eternal Life Now
John is calling us to aim at a particular variety of love, to aspire to a way of life—eternal life—here and now. Eternal life is life on another level. It’s life in the light of love.
May 14, 2025•21 min
Something Better Than the Concentrate Approach to Faith
I’m tired of watered-down faith. I want the not-from-concentrate Christian faith. I want “Simply Jesus.”
May 13, 2025•18 min
Sinning Is Not Inevitable
If sin has lost its power, maybe the problem is we have not taken up our power.
May 12, 2025•21 min
God, the Mighty Fortress (Psalm 48)
This psalm foreshadows the great vision of the new covenant, where men and women from every tribe, tongue, and nation will be adopted into the family of God.
May 11, 2025•9 min
Believing You Can Hit the Target
I think the biggest problem we Christians have with sin is our lack of belief that it can be overcome.
May 10, 2025•21 min
Why Attention Is More Important Than Activity
Lord Jesus, teach me this way of beholding, of seeing beyond sight and hearing beyond sound.
May 09, 2025•22 min
How to Spot a Counterfeit
One of the marks of a maturing follower of Jesus is a humble boldness born of a deep inner conviction about what is true, which consequently gives one discernment about what is false.
May 08, 2025•21 min
The Simplicity of Abiding in the Gospel
We have one job in the life hid with Christ in God—and that is to show up, every day, day after day, and rehearse the truth we have heard from the beginning.
May 07, 2025•21 min
The Exclusive-Inclusive Gospel of Jesus Christ
The gospel of Jesus Christ is totally exclusive, yet it is radically inclusive. Anyone who believes gets in on it.
May 06, 2025•20 min
Do You Have the Anointing?
To grow in maturity as a follower of Jesus means to grow in the anointing.
May 05, 2025•20 min
The Universal Rule and Reign of God (Psalm 47)
This psalm foreshadows the great vision of the new covenant, where men and women from every tribe, tongue, and nation will be adopted into the family of God.
May 04, 2025•9 min
The Greatest Danger to the Church Still
The metric for Christian maturity is not competent skills or great gifts, but humility and holy love.
May 03, 2025•20 min
Why Pornography Is Not the Problem
When you boil it all down, the problem is never out there in the so-called world. The problem is in here, in the broken world of my inmost self.
May 02, 2025•21 min
The Way of Salvation Is a Sin-Defeating Journey
The love of God could bring them into relationships with other people in such a way that their lives exuded the joy-filled, holy love of God, which is the power of the gospel of Jesus Christ that can take a broken world and transform it into a new creation.
May 01, 2025•21 min
Love Is Not a Subjective Feeling
To the extent that I am not actively putting my self-interest aside and serving and helping and looking out for the best interests of the people around me, I am walking around in the darkness, lost as I can be.
Apr 30, 2025•20 min
Love Cannot Be Taught
When Jesus taught his disciples the meaning of love, he didn’t render an interpretation. He became the interpretation.
Apr 29, 2025•20 min
Love Is Not Soft
Love is not about playing nice. We are talking about nothing less than taking on the supernatural nature of Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit so that we can live a new life.
Apr 28, 2025•21 min
God Sets Things Right (Psalm 46)
What a great assurance is ours that however unstable and rebellious the world gets, God is going to intervene and set things right.
Apr 27, 2025•12 min
The Game-Changing Question of Easter
Is it possible to not sin? What if we flipped that question on its side and asked it like this: Is it possible to love?
Apr 26, 2025•21 min
Sin Reframed
To be made perfect in love means growing in the love of God for other people.
Apr 25, 2025•19 min
Dealing with the Biggest "If" in Life
Confession doesn’t begin with naming our sins. It begins with claiming the truth that we are sinners.
Apr 24, 2025•20 min
The Antidote to Self-Deception
I’m beginning to think our biggest problem is the way we deceive ourselves about sin.
Apr 23, 2025•19 min
The Seduction of the Middle
Perhaps the biggest misconception we have is that our relationship with God will determine our relationships with other people. It’s just the opposite. If you want to know what kind of fellowship I have with God, examine my relationships with other people.
Apr 22, 2025•20 min
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