By David Faust For years I’ve had a hard time understanding people who run marathons. Why do presumably sane individuals subject themselves to such torture? Why endure the sore muscles, chafed skin, and stressed joints created by running 26.2 miles, some of it uphill? Plus you won’t win the race—unless you happen to be […]
By David Faust Do you ever struggle to find the right balance between engagement and disengagement? Books like Boundaries by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend and Cloud’s Necessary Endings remind us that it’s OK to say, “I can’t do that” or, “Let’s stop and find a new approach.” There is a time […]
By David Faust NFL quarterbacks and senior ministers have something in common: Both of them get more credit than they deserve when things go well, and more blame than they deserve when things go wrong. Consider how we treat God. He is the giver of every “good and perfect gift” (James 1:17). Jesus compared […]
By David Faust No section of the Bible portrays the superiority of the Lord Jesus Christ more clearly than the book of Hebrews. According to this letter, Christ is “the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word” (Hebrews 1:3). Christ is “superior to […]
By David Faust What amazes you most about Jesus? Are you astonished by his power over nature—walking on water, multiplying bread and fish, changing water into wine? or the way he healed the sick—giving first-time sight to a man born blind, reversing the effects of deafness, restoring skin tissue ravaged by leprosy? His stories […]
