Walking Patiently with Unbelieving Family
This is Week 29 in the Grace in Everyday Relationships Series. For many believers, the hardest mission field is not across an ocean but across…
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Singleness, Marriage, and Friendship — Resisting the Marriage Idol
This is Week 28 in the Grace in Everyday Relationships Series. In many churches, marriage quietly becomes the line that divides those who have “made…
Servant Leadership and the Church That Refused to Split
What the First Church Did When Its First Conflict Came — A Walk Through Acts 6:1–7 Every growing thing eventually faces a growing pain. A…
The Hidden Life: Disciplines, Mixed Motives, and Endurance in Obscurity
Not a Program, but a Life Over seven articles, this series has traced a single argument from multiple angles: motive is the deepest layer of…
Being a Safe and Trustworthy Friend
This is Week 23 in the Grace in Everyday Relationships Series. “Can I tell you something and know it stays here?” Those words can hang…
The Fallout: What Corrupt Motive Does to the People Being Led
The People We Have Not Yet Talked About For six articles, this series has focused on the leader. We have traced the God who weighs…
The Danger of Hypocrisy: What Ananias and Sapphira Teach Us About Lying to God
This article is adapted from Sermon 12 in our forty-week expository journey through the Book of Acts. There is a story in the Bible that…
The Platform and The Corner Office: How the Modern Age Multiplies the Motive Trap
The Same Soul, Amplified Everything we have traced in this series so far—the God who weighs motives, the Son whose motive was pure, the six…
The Pastorals Reread: Why the Elder Qualifications Are a Motive Document
The Lists We Think We Know If you have spent any time in church leadership—serving on an elder board, sitting through an ordination interview, participating…
Six Shadows and Five Steady Flames: Biblical Portraits of Failed and Faithful Motive
The Same Story, Told Eleven Times The previous articles in this series have established two things. First, God weighs the motives of leaders—He always has,…