“Things were sideways for a while,” my friend admitted. She went on, “leaving my church…
“I don’t know.” You could make a case that it has become one of the…
For some reason, despite my increasingly selective memory, I can remember every single moment in…
My name is Dan, and some people have resorted to calling me “Dandelion” lately. Get…
What would it be like if you could actually hear what God might say to…
The Gospel is for sinners. Sounds simple enough … a review of some fourth grade…
Peace. These days it almost seems a utopian idea. Can we really have peace? Protesters…
Elijah is running for his life. He runs through Israel, to the very edge of…
If you listen closely, you’ll frequently hear people say something like, “There’s gotta be a…
Righteousness—isn’t that what the really loud preachers are always talking about? And the people you…
Malachi penned his message from a precipice, unaware of the silent drought that would soon…
The world is gray again. There seems to be no point in loving, in believing,…
Jules Tompkins looks at the topic of weakness and prayer in a blog for RELEVANT.
When I was in high school, I made a hobby out of sitting in the…
Evan Bell writes a blog for RELEVANT about finding an adventure and risking everything with Jesus.
Fear is a noose. It tightens and asphyxiates, leaving breath shallow and forced. Those who…
If getting in shape was easy, then everyone would do it. That’s the thing about…
“How do you live as a Christian when you struggle with anxiety?” She asked me,…
Looking at change as a constant part of life.
Recently, my little sons watched Santa Claus is Coming to Town, the classic Christmas claymation…
Todd Fisher writes a column for RELEVANT about lessons we can learn from Elf about a childlike faith.
While in grad school, I ran across the author Henri Nouwen, who articulated the tension—or…
Whenever I work out at the YMCA, I am reminded of a great scene in…
If religious faith could be packaged in a pill, the stock price of drug companies…
How do I get myself into these predicaments? I asked myself as the plane left…
Four years ago, this strange micro-trend appeared: A handful of Dallas-area megachurch pastors were diagnosed…
We live in divisive political times with a future uncertain, tired of the combats on…
Naturally, people don’t like to (and, frankly, don’t want to) forgive. We want to hold…
Yesterday, I drove by a church with a billboard that said, “Discover the bread of…
I once slept through a Category 5 hurricane. The year was 1992. I was a…
It’s way too easy to find blogs, articles and books on “what’s wrong with the…
Justin Bieber recently shared a clip to his 100 million Instagram followers from a sermon…
(Author’s note: I’ve changed some of the names of the individuals to protect their families…
The human brain craves stimulation. When we don’t receive proper stimulation, boredom creeps in. When…
At its core, feminism is the belief that men and women should be equal on…
Twitter can be a primary source for your memes before they stale and eventually make…
Parched air. Unquenchable thirst. Isolation. No, it’s not the Sahara. It’s your spiritual life. It’s…
The Psalms are deeply rhythmic. Psalm 22 is a case in point. When we read…
This year, ABC is broadcasting one of the Bible’s most powerful passages into millions of…
There are all manner of misrepresentations of what Christianity is and who Jesus was and…