One of the beautiful implications of the resurrection is that it produces in us a resilient hope, a hope that endures even when it LOOKS like evil is winning.

“If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.” - Tim Keller

“He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The challenging lesson of Jonah is that he didn't want his enemies to change. He wanted them punished. I wonder: how might our rhetoric change if our posture toward one another was less like Jonah's, and more like Christ's?

What a relief to remember that your life’s purpose is not to win people to you. You can make mistakes, you can disappoint people, you can fail, you can be exactly human sized… …and still succeed at pointing people to Jesus.

Sometimes we feel insecure because we are standing on something insecure. Jesus doesn’t shake.

Marriage in 2025 sounds like, “Can you text me the code that was just texted to your phone?” on repeat.

Waiting is one of the primary ways God forms us. 🎥 What Does the Bible Say? with Sharon Hodde Miller

Our latest episode of The Resilient Pastor Podcast is all about creating a healthy staff culture. Rich Villodas Sharon Hodde Miller and I share frameworks, practices, and stories from our contexts, and then Jenni Catron shares her insights from her consulting work. I’ve outlined a

Leaders have enormous gravitational pull. Without trying, you can become the center of the solar system, with everyone and everything revolving around you— your opinions, your decisions, and your preferences. Some baptize this as “honor culture”. But it’s a trap. It’s

Learn what the Bible says about your purpose and God's plan in this Bible study with Sharon Hodde Miller, exclusively on RightNow Media. ▶️ Watch now: rnow.me/bible-say

When we are discouraged, disillusioned, or shaken by the darkness in this world, Advent reminds us: We are still in the middle of the story.

Advent reminds us that it is waiting, not predictability or control, that has a central place in the Christian faith.

One paradox of faith is that we cannot learn to trust God if we do not entrust Him with anything. So long as we withhold our finances, our relationships, our sexual practices, our future, or our dreams, God can never prove himself trustworthy with them.

"Virgin births are not surprising given that this is the God who has created us without us, but who will not save us without us." - Stanley Hauerwas

During Advent we remember when Joseph, Mary, and Jesus were vulnerable and depended on the hospitality of strangers. We also remember the invitation to practice this same hospitality, as if it were for Christ himself.

At a time when the concept of “empathy” is hotly debated, Advent enters the chat with the clearest picture of empathy available to Christians: God with us.

Pregnancy looms large in the Christmas story, which contains not one birth narrative but two. Why? Because at Advent, God invites us to consider whether the darkness that feels so much like a tomb, might actually be a womb.