For everyone in leadership who wants to follow Jesus, I would suggest the best place to start is Philippians 2:7, where Paul tells us that Jesus “made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant.” It does not say that Jesus became a man of bad reputation or of questionable reputation, but simply of no reputation. That is, reputation, image, prestige, prominence, power and other trappings of leadership were .

If Jesus is ‘the way, the truth and the life” why do we so often feel like we have lost our way, become confused and end up just muddling through life?  Perhaps because our enemy wants to take us off the straight path and lure us into a maze.  He beckons us to take our eyes off of Christ, even just for a moment, and look to our own strength, skills and wisdom to .

It was announced today that the solution to the moral mess in the Secret Service is to hire Johns Hopkins University to give them ethics training.  I am trying to imagine what that must look like.  I always thought that our ethics were the outward manifestations of our primary moral convictions. That is, what we do is the product of our character, our beliefs about God and our place in His world. So how do .

The decline of Christian influence in American culture can be traced directly to how we choose to commemorate Good Friday.  Too often we glance at Good Friday just long enough to remember the cross and sigh at the thought of the suffering savior, then move quickly to focus on the more joyful scenes of Easter Sunday.  By doing so we reduce the passion of Christ to a momentary blip on the journey from Palm .

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! (2Co 5:17)  Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope (1Pe 1:3) There is an amazing moment in the movie The Passion of the Christ.  To me, it makes the entire movie worth watching just for this .