When I was younger, I remember trying to make New Year’s resolutions. I quickly learned that I was the resolution-making type--but the resolution-keeping type...not so much. So, for much of my adult life, I refused to make New Year’s resolutions because they only served as blatant reminders of my impending failure and general ineptness at being Someone Who Has All Her Stuff Together.
As I grew older, I had a change of heart...
It's a pretty radical thing when you stop talking about reading the Bible and learning the Bible and start talking about doing the Bible.
Pastor Francis Chan asks what it would be like if when he told his daughter to go clean her room, she treated it the way Christians treat Jesus' commands. Can you imagine her coming back to her father and saying to him, "You remember what you told me to do? I memorized it. I can even say it in Greek." But although she has memorized it...
