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Young, Rested, Reformed

Without a robust practice of rest and personal piety Christian leaders will crash and burn.

Andrew NobleFormation

Faithfulness in an Inside-Out World

What does it mean to live faithfully in a world where we assume that external reality must conform to our internal desires?

Nadya WilliamsFamilyFormation

In Praise of Being Inconvenient

The person who refuses to be inconvenienced by people is a person who refuses the blessing of sacrificially giving of oneself.

Kirk WarehamFormation

Love Your (Actual) Neighbor

The command to love our neighbors begins with the actual neighbors with whom we share our local places.

Jake MeadorOnline WritingFormation

The Opining Life

If the one necessary thing is to contemplate God and prepare to meet him, how would that affect the way we write or think in public?

Andrew ArndtChurchFormation

A Christmas Sermon

A Christmas sermon from Andrew Arndt, pastor of New Life East in Colorado Springs, CO

Seth TrouttGenderFormation

Best of 2024: Scripts for Healthy Masculinity

One helpful way of discussing good masculinity is to consider the specific roles that men occupy as they pass through life.

Charles JacobTheologyFormation

Pain at Christmas

The first Christmas was not without pain, which means that sometimes it will come with pain for us too as we wait the completion of God's redemptive work.

Bruce ClarkFormation

Grief and Gratitude at Christmas

Both the grief and gratitude that can accompany Christmas are a reminder of the one who made all things and now comes incarnate into our world.

Jake MeadorFormation

Do We Even Want Peace on Earth?

In a day of ever-growing partisan rage and enemy hatred, I wonder if we even want Jesus to come, the one who will bring peace to earth.

Jake MeadorChurchFormation

Constructing Toward Catholicity

I've known many people who left one evangelical church and found another, or who simply leave altogether. I have known few who leave and find catholicity.

Ross ByrdBibleFormation

Be Perfect

Eden wasn't perfect, if we understand what the Bible means by 'perfect.' But one day those of us found in Christ will be.