What Does It Mean to Be a Disciple? Part One

What Does It Mean to Be a Disciple? Part One

What is the best decision you’ve ever made in your life? Most likely, you are thinking of a life-altering event. Your mind is reviewing the highlight reels. Maybe your college graduation ceremony, or your first exercise class, or your wedding day flashes across the...
The Task of the Living

The Task of the Living

What are your Memorial Day plans? Like me, you may see a grill-out and time with friends and family in your future. While these festivities are appropriate, we mustn’t let them overshadow the reason we have a national holiday like this in the first place. What exactly...
The Preeminent Christian Virtue

The Preeminent Christian Virtue

What would you classify as the preeminent Christian virtue–the one that animates all others? Would it be faith, joy, courage, or patience? Each of these virtues are important to Christianity and help the Christian to practice Christian duties, such as Bible...
How to Stay Spiritually Fit

How to Stay Spiritually Fit

Have you ever started a diet and workout routine only to relapse into unhealthy habits halfway through? Most of us probably have at some point in our lives. Usually, it happens because the going gets tough, we lose our motivation, and we lose sight of our goals. Just...
Glimpsing Gethsemane, Part Two

Glimpsing Gethsemane, Part Two

When we linger in Gethsemane, we learn much about our Savior. What we learn deepens our gratitude, love, and devotion toward Him. What we see of Jesus in Gethsemane constrains us to follow Him, to be His disciples. In Gethsemane, we also glimpse something about...