Who’s Your Boss?

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ. — Colossians 3:23–24 “What do you do?” This is the question we most...

Is Your Name a Gift or a Problem?

His name was Mavuto. I met him the first year I attended Camp Life in Zambia in 2009. Like so many of the children at camp, he was quiet, a bit withdrawn, and blended in with the hundreds of other children who were at camp that week. But since he was in my small group...

Staying Power

Question: What do Moses, Paul, Isaiah and the early disciples all have in common? If you answered, “They’re all Bible characters,” you’d be right! (Good for you.) You would also be right if you recognized the fact that they all had...

Passion

Have you ever seen a movie in which the main character dreams of being kissed by her beloved in the opening scene? Neither have I. Most of the romantic movies I have seen begin with a chance meeting of a guy and a girl early in the film. And if it’s a Hallmark...

The Mind Of Christ

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the...

Lifestyles Of The Rich And Favored

Anyone who grew up in the ’80s or ‘90s knows the TV show Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. The host Robin Leach became famous himself by profiling ultra-rich individuals and their yachts, their summer homes, their automobiles, and their extravagant...