My daughter recently had a birthday. On her birthday morning, there was a singular red balloon stuck in one of the trees in our front yard. It was as if some random person let go of the flying object to join us in her celebration.

Even if you like what you do, chances are you still have a love/hate relationship with work. If you feel this way, you’re not alone.

Learning how to be generous can be challenging, even more so when things start going sideways.

It’s a provocative thought, but one I’ve grappled with over the years.

Too often we view stewardship through “all or nothing” lenses: I’m either a good steward, or I’m not.

The local church is critical to faith. From a biblical perspective, it’s impossible to separate participation in Christianity from involvement in a local church.

As we follow Jesus, we are called to pursue holiness. But this pursuit must not be rooted in our desire to be great. For example, in the story of the Rich Young Ruler in Matthew 19, Jesus tells the man to sell everything he owns before following him. It’s a profound request, one that typically…

In recent years, the place where I became most frustrated was the carpool line. It wasn’t that I didn’t enjoy taking my child to school, but that I was plagued by parents who refused to follow the drop-off protocol. As I considered why I would get so frustrated at these rule breakers, I finally determined…

The new year tends to immediately begin as a sprint. No matter what efforts we attempt at slowing down, the calendar already seems full just minutes after the clock strikes midnight.

The book of Leviticus is typically not included in conversations about generosity. But if we’re to develop a robust understanding of what it means to be generous, we must seek the whole counsel of Scripture and that includes this often-overlooked book. In a previous article we observed the role of God’s grace (the Greek word charis)…