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Confessions of a Bad Faster

I have a bad history with fasting. It started early. When I was sixteen, I signed up for a 30-Hour Famine, an event designed to raise...

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The Unusual Self-Control of John Stott

The English preacher lived a disciplined life that benefited others. When the English cleric John Stott died in 2011, tributes came...

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Why Self-Control Is So Important

We may be tested in dramatic moments, but the fabric of life is stitched slowly, through a thousand tiny choices that end up defining our...

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The Reflex of Worship

Have you ever sensed God in a room? I think I have. Sounds strange, I know. But if you’ve participated in enough corporate worship or...

The Future of Evangelicalism: Stronger, Smaller, and Stranger

We’ll be left with a church of upstream swimmers, people who cling to their faith identity despite a powerful counter current of...

You Can Break Your Brain: And 4 Other Things I’ve learned from My Struggle with Depression & Anxiety

Three months ago I took my last antidepressant. Well, it was more like a sliver of an antidepressant, a pink little tab cracked off from...

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