What will follow this season remains to be seen, but it will certainly alter what church looks like and how we practice the way of Jesus. What should leaders do as we enter into this uncertain and challenging time?
All in Discipleship
Passion Week Meditation
What’s a congregation to do? In these days of sheltering in place and quarantine and physical distancing, who is going to show up and celebrate an empty tomb?
Learning to Walk
In the wake of major life disappointments, the waves of doubt can threaten to disorient even mature believers.
It Is Well With My Soul
Here it is: the obstacle that pushes the disciples’ faith too far. The obstacle that ushers in helplessness and panic.
Articles for the Season of Lent
I invite you to explore this collection of Lenten articles and sermons from the Mosaic archives.
What Are You Becoming?
If we are not any different today than we were when we committed ourselves to Christ, then chances are we have not been growing.
The Theological School of Dirty Mop Water
My engagement with my work led to more questions, which brought me back to more reflection. The ever-pressing question was, “Where is God in work?”
Trust
We live in an age of distrust, which has profound implications for the church as an institution, for us as people, and for leadership.
Starting with a Clean Slate
We must take a fresh look at our priorities, and the spiritual discipline of detachment is invaluable in this process.
Gluttony and Temperance: Ever-Present Vice and Neglected Virtue
With how much restraint do you enjoy life’s greatest pleasures?
Leaning into Leviticus
Every decision we make, from the food we eat to how we structure our time, provides an opportunity to show a watching world who God is.
Demonstrated. Present. Essential.
We witness a demonstration of love that speaks to the humility and self-sacrificing nature of who Jesus is at his very core .
Jesus Is not God’s Stress Ball
It makes no sense that we would be called out of our life of wrath by an act of wrath.
He Stills Storms Still: A Meditation (Part 3)
Could it be that the real question is not, “Who is this that even the wind and sea obey him?” but rather, “Who is this who sleeps through storms?”
He Stills Storms Still: A Meditation (Part 2)
Jesus’s disciples, when faced with the imminent possibility of death, ask the question of the ages when they ask, “Do you not care that we are perishing?”
The Cost of Impatience
Patience keeps us fixated on our hope and shields us from acting out of our restlessness as we wait for the coming of the Lord.
‘Tis the Season for Reflective Planning
As the year comes to a close, there is one practice that should be built into our schedules: reflection.
Beauty in the Abnormal
Beauty might be in the eye of the beholder, but that eye seems inconsistent in its demands for meeting expectations of beauty.
Cancer, Jesus, Sin, and Surgery
My recent surgery made me think about melanoma and sin, about radical physical and spiritual surgery, and about recovery.
Pursuing Jesus Like Zacchaeus
The challenge with stories like Zacchaeus is that they can become too familiar.