Listen below or subscribe on iTunes or Google Play Guest co-host Chase Stancle joins Noah to discuss “the sign gifts” of healing, tongues, prophecy, and miracles. The debate about these gifts has torn apart the church and left unbiblical teaching on both extremes. We wade through the confusion and abuses of an important but mysterious topic. You can […]
Suffering & Living Like this World is Heaven
Suffering is one of the most common reasons people doubt God. If God is so loving, how can such bad things happen? Trite statements by Christians only make this worse: Something good will come out this, just wait. God has a purpose for everything. Something good will come out of rape, child abuse, or the […]
4 Soul-Level Ways to Avoid Ministry Burnout
Ministry burnout; despair; discouragement. This 3-headed monster and its ugly cousins usually come visit me when I ponder how much “bad” is out there in contrast to my ability to do anything about it. The Bible commands me to do something about it, but that can’t mean I’m to live in debilitating despair, right? Because […]
What does the Bible say about the Trinity?
What does the Bible say about the Trinity? The Best Way to Explain the Trinity The Trinity. How can such a core doctrine of the Christian faith be so confusing? And why does it even matter? The doctrine of the Trinity is the understanding that God is 1 essence and 3 persons (God the Father, […]
Survey: You’re Probably Too Busy to Enjoy God
I’m re-reading Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership: Seeking God in the Crucible of Ministry by Ruth Haley Barton for the third time in 2015. No book has brought such transformational change to my leadership and walk with Christ as this one. I’ll be doing a full review of the book later this week. Here’s […]
The Struggles of Being a Pastor
As I pastor, I typically have thick skin. But there are definitely days, and weeks, where the skin gets thin and things hurt more than normal. Or when enough things pile up to pierce the toughness that is typically there. Many pastors I know are like me in that if 99 things are going well […]