Author: Josh Pezold

Christian maturity is marked by obedience to Jesus. More than Biblical know how it is evidenced by loving God and others well. This love is sacrificial, void of self-interest, empty of malice, and overflowing with eternal concern. However, if we are honest, you and I probably know a few representatives of Jesus who don’t exactly look or sound like that. Maybe even ourselves. Instead, our experience of faith, personally and socially, is one where we find Christians living like they want to love but are often consumed by the emotions of the moment. When it really counts, we can fail...

Sometimes the things you need to change aren’t blind spots. They can more accurately be described as “I don’t care spots”. They are the problems you know exist, but you don’t care enough to do anything about them. Whether this is due to our upbringing, the season of life we’re in, or our spiritual journey…. we often have sections of our lives we just don’t want to deal with right now. Or ever. But eventually, this avoidance catches up with us. The things we didn’t want to deal with can quickly become the issues we have to deal with. And sometimes irreparable...