Replacing “Cancel Culture” with Disciplines that Demonstrate a Redeemed Life
I was scrolling through Twitter some time ago when a tweet caught my attention because of its use of “with us or against us” logic. Essentially, the accusation was that…
Clean out your social media cupboards
In 2018, I was weighing in at a doughy 250 lbs. While I liked to think of myself as “muscular,” looking back at some older pictures (thank you Facebook and…
A Social Media Fast and Living Witness to the Gospel
Moody Center is part of the “Go Dark, Shine Bright” campaign, a guided social media fast and living witness to the gospel. We encourage you to join us! Starting on…
How to Make Theological Choices
The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only…
Three Tips for Navigating the Noise of Social Media
When we are flooded with information in the digital age, we need to refocus our attention, and we need to learn to identify signals amongst the noise.
4 Practices for Developing Character
“Christianity isn’t worth a snap of your finger if it doesn’t straighten out your character. I have got tired of all mere gush and sentiment. If people can’t tell when…
Making Decisions, Becoming Disciples
In the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, Jaron Lanier, founding father of virtual reality and a computer scientist, offers the following insight regarding the “product” of “free” internet: “It’s the…
Reflections on Impartiality
“There is no class of people exempt from broken hearts. The rich and the poor suffer alike. There was a time when I used to visit the poor that I thought…
Praying Psalm 1
A prayer for discipleship inspired by Psalm 1. Lord, we ask that you will make us a blessed people who do not walk in the wicked’s counsel, stand in the…
What Do You Pray for a Nation: A Plea for the Church to Be a Calming Presence in a Moment of Chaos
When we think about how to pray for our nation, we must consider what it means to pray for ourselves and for our own individual and collective character and direction….