Concentrated Faith

The early church provides a blueprint for how we can turn the world upside down for Jesus’ sake Have you watched the news lately? You probably walked away with a sense that the world was not the way it is supposed to be. The truth is, it’s not. The world desperately needs to be turned…

How (or why) we read the Bible matters You could argue that there are few things more important in the life of the Christian than reading the Bible. Faith comes by hearing God’s Word (Rom. 10:17), and it is within the pages of the Bible that we can be introduced to God the Father, the…

The gospel contains good news for overthinkers Most Christians should agree that the Bible is more than pop-psychology or self-help literature. Nevertheless, the Bible still contains powerful emotional and psychological principles that can help us improve even our temporal lives. At least part of the “abundant life” offered by Jesus (John 10:10) can be grasped…

Be careful, little fingers, what you type Do you remember making your first social media profile? For me, it was a Myspace account. Those were simpler times. I remember the joy I felt customizing my page by adding a skateboarding background and Papa Roach’s latest song to my profile. Then Facebook came out, and slowly,…

Jesus is sovereign over that which makes us afraid. Fear grips people differently than almost anything else. Fear can be all-consuming, life-derailing, and joy-draining. But Christians don’t have to be fearful. In fact, they shouldn’t be fearful. In a time where fear-inducing 24-hour news cycles and secular doomsday prophecies abound, Christians should stand out as…

The gospel (literally the good news) of Jesus Christ in its simplest explanation is the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus (1 Cor 15:1-8). But the good news doesn’t stop there. The reason why Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection is “good news” is that the same hope of death to old life and the resurrection…