My next book, Faith Simplified: What We Believe and Why We Believe It, releases on May 20th. Today, I’m sharing […]

If you’ve ever been encouraged to pray like everything depends on God but work as if it all depends on you, you’ve been given bad advice. Let’s talk about the better vision the Bible offers.

I didn’t expect reading the Bible to change my life. But that’s what so often happens when you read it. And it’s what I hope to see as those who bought a Bible for the first time in recent months begin to read it.

“Who is my neighbor?” The question that a teacher posed to justify himself looms large in our divided culture. But Jesus’s answer to the question continues to challenge us to do what is often costly: to love our neighbors—especially those who we struggle to acknowledge as neighbors at all.

Many of us rush through our Bible time. But Scripture encourages us to linger and meditate. So what is a way to do that? By writing as we read.

The whole idea of our faith being tested seems so nebulous, doesn’t it? Sure, we read about how the “testing of your faith produces patience” (James 1:3 NKJV), but what does that really look like? Many of us don’t really know. Or at least, we don’t think we do.

We live in an anxious moment. But there’s one truth that helps me to sleep at night—one truth that actually feels at odds with our experience of the world: God is in control.