I knew we needed to talk about it. ...

I recently came back from a short-term trip working with our Central Asian Church-Planting Team, and while it was a challenging trip in many ways, one of my favorite stories from the week involved...

I wanted to become more intentional about focusing on Christ throughout the holiday season and not just on Christmas Day. If you're looking for some resources to help you with this,

have you ever thought what you want the fruit of your loneliness to be?

I have a lot of experience with breakups.

We cannot judge what’s true by what we feel because our feelings will mislead us.

Although guilt and shame travel together, they are not the same thing.

I was hit with a wave of anxiety because of

But that’s what happened this spring. And it took taking a class on “problematic emotions” for me to recognize it.

politics and laws do not change people’s hearts, which is why we are a nation still divided this long after Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Act.

Don’t carry around the guilt Christ came to set you free from.

Have you ever experienced a disconnect between what you knew to be true and how you felt?

You might have read these descriptions and thought, “Oh no! That’s me!”

There wasn’t a fire. In fact, I even had a warning

It is a lie that we cannot control our emotions.

This scene in Inside Out is my favorite in the entire movie. Don’t you wish you could have such running commentary

you can imagine my surprise when the college junior sitting across from me chose that particular place and time to tell me about

Mother's Day is bittersweet for so many. Let's not forget those among us who close their Facebook feeds, skip church, and wish for it all to be over.

“If every believer served and gave of their time and money like you do, what would the church be like?”

If I could have several do-overs in life, I know what one of them would be.

How can you love God - truly love God - without learning? Love without knowledge is fluffy and superficial. It’s naive. And knowledge without love is dry, stuffy, stale, overbearing, and legalistic.

Simplistic answers did not suffice. "Just have faith" was not enough for her.

What you write down does not have to be tied up in a neat theological bow (or even written in complete sentences).

If you would like to create an Easter playlist, our Brook Hills Worship Team has put together a list of songs that you can download