Lance Brown

Most of us don’t struggle with laziness. We are busy, productive, optimized and somewhere in all of that activity, the most important relationship we have quietly grows thin. We keep doing things for God while spending less and less time with him. And we don’t notice the switch has happened until something breaks. That’s Martha’s…

We are good about protecting ourselves from a “no” that we don’t want to hear. The Canaanite women begged Jesus for help, and didn’t just settle for His first answer. She stayed engaged until her faith won his favor.

Elizabeth’s story is for anyone who has been carrying a prayer that keeps coming back unanswered. Anyone who has started, quietly, to believe that the silence means something, about their worth, their standing, whether God has moved for other people but not for them. She waited longer than most of us would, and what she…

Real Christianity is meant to be the fix for what goes awry in our human nature and what torpedoes real relationships. It is also meant to provide a deeper satisfaction and a power for living we cannot generate on our own. Is the “something” we are all looking for when we realize “something’s missing.”

“Good Friday” is a strange name for this day. If you describe what actually happened — a man arrested on false charges, beaten beyond recognition, nailed to a cross in front of a mocking crowd “good” is not the first word that comes to mind. Horrific. Unjust. Brutal. Those fit. But good? Unless something else…