I’ve written in an attempt to locate and touch your heart—and by touching your heart, help you identify it in order to more confidently convert Christian theory into daily practice.

Every human system tells us we are not meant to fly. We are meant to shuffle through the dust from which we were made.

Brother Jesus: I’m grateful that nothing can alter who I am and whose I am. But from this place of confidence, please give me your wherewithal to live and keep my wits about me. Amen.

Our representative men and women serve us by showing us our need for God’s leadership. This is one reason Scripture instructs us to pray for those in authority. When we do so, we are using a representative of us to pray for ourselves.

What you are asking is that the One who is love, would be love, in you and through you. This is a prayer your heavenly Father answers affirmatively every time you pray it.

Voting is about power. This is why secure voting is consistently compromised by fraud. As the man said, “I vote often and repeatedly.”

A relevant, vibrant, active faith must engage an informed political process while clearly understanding that hope is in Christ, confidence is in Christ, future is in Christ, past is in Christ, and today is in Christ.

The more we embrace equity the more unequal our culture becomes. The more we point out diversity, the more divided we become. The more we champion inclusion, the more discriminating our culture becomes. The more we promote access, the more groups we cancel.

Father God is unfazed. He knows. He understands. He is the one who makes wrongs right, defends the powerless, and cares for those whom He loves.

The lack of agenda meant I had time for my soul to fully work its way through its considerations, its contemplations, its questions—its ruminations.

I’m going to step away from my keyboard for August and lie as still as I can and see if inaction helps it get cooler.

Within every person there is a sucking sound that only God can supply without being sucked-in.

Quibble with the margin of error in this study and you play the fool. A statistical significance of seven-to-ninety times greater is astounding.

Lifetime belongs to God. The message is His. The application is simply the Gospel applied and made relevant.

Given this, it makes perfect sense that the author of Hebrews exhorts you to endure all the mess and mania occurring in the arena of life by fixing your eyes on Jesus.

Learning forms habits and habits reinforce learning—it’s a compounding dynamic.

You work your way through the low spot one step at a time. Nothing fancy. No desperate moves. You pay attention to your fundamentals.

The logic of Rigorous Grace is simple: If these twelve practices were the way Jesus lived, then these twelve practices should guide the way I live.

If we express our perspectives using the same language, and have access to the same statistics, and have lived through a shared history, then what’s to account for us talking past each other?

God doesn’t expect you to get life perfectly right. He does expect you to show up, engage with Him, and learn His ways.