In the Little Things: Faith and Transformation
In Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics, Samuel Wells argues that our ability to make ethical choices is seldom a question of having special resolve at the moment of decision. It…
3 Spiritual Lessons from Lifting
I have been an avid weight lifter for close to 30 years now. While I’ve never participated at any sort of competitive level (or even had a desire to), I…
Redeeming Your Time
My wife and I recently spent a week at her family’s farm. We slept in a barn converted into a cozy living space, had internet that was just a little…
Transforming Our Questions
“Dad, are we there yet?” These five words in combination may be the bane of every parent’s existence. Driving to Florida for vacation with my wife and three young children,…
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…
Breaking the Internet to Proclaim the Gospel: Sharing the Gospel on Social Media
We are surrounded by distractions that call us to ignore our commitment to be and make disciples. D. L. Moody Center is pleased to be a part of the Go…
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…