Live at the Intersection of Grace and Truth We live in a day when the church’s influence in our culture and community is waning at an alarming rate – a time when we find ourselves as a people increasingly marginalized, criticized, and distrusted. The stats are shocking, but…

Communicating Across the Racial Divide Dying to Self In recent years, we have seen the emergence of Black Lives Matter, a group fighting for issues that concern blacks. In response, some whites began to push the ideas of All Lives Matter to emphasize a colorblind approach to racial…

A historic opportunity is in front of us. I believe we are currently in a significant moment of time that will be defining for the future of the church. Moments like these happen every several generations, and I believe that right now we are in such a time…

National tragedy has struck again. The fact that you can read that sentence and not know the exact tragedy to which I’m referring is telling. We live in a broken world wrecked by pain and spirally downward at a dizzying speed – this is an undeniable reality. The…

Missionary Identity The reality is, Christians are interlopers.  We are strangers and foreigners. As Christians, I believe we should always be more driven by our missionary identity than we are by our national identity, our political identity, our environmental identity, our social identity, or even our church identity.…