Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 11142. Finding a new church after leaving one you have belonged to for years is genuinely disorienting, and I say that having walked several families through exactly this process. The familiar faces, the seat you always quietly sat in, the small weekly routines you barely noticed until they were suddenly gone, all of that…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 11140. How do I find a good church? I get asked this constantly, whether from someone new to the faith, a family who has just relocated, or someone quietly limping away from a painful previous church experience and nervous about trying again. It is one of the most practically important questions a Christian ever…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 11139. A small group is, at its simplest, a handful of church members meeting regularly outside the main Sunday service to study Scripture, pray, and build genuine relationships with each other. What is a small group actually for, though, beyond simply filling a gap in the church calendar, and why does it matter enough…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 11138. Should I have an accountability partner in my Christian life? I hear this question most often from believers who have just come through a season of moral failure, or who sense a particular temptation gaining ground in their life and want a genuine safeguard beyond simple willpower and private prayer alone. My short…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11137. Christian mentoring gets talked about a great deal in church circles these days, often in the same breath as discipleship, and I think that overlap causes more confusion than clarity for most believers wondering whether they actually need a mentor, a discipler, or simply a good friend who happens to be further along…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 11134. Reading the Bible for the first time can feel overwhelming, and I say that as someone who has walked more than a few nervous new believers through exactly this question. Sixty-six books, two testaments, unfamiliar names, and a shelf of different translations to choose between before you have even opened the cover. Where…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 11132. Study Bible reading and devotional reading are not competitors, though the way some people talk about them you would think you had to pick a side for life and defend it against the other camp. I hold both together, and I want to show you why that combination, rather than either one alone,…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 11131. Devotional Bible reading gets a bad name in some circles, as if reading Scripture for nourishment rather than for analysis is somehow the lightweight cousin of proper study, the spiritual equivalent of skimming instead of really working. I want to push back on that a little. Devotional Bible reading, done well, is not…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11130. Scripture memorisation is one of those spiritual disciplines that almost every believer agrees is valuable and almost no believer actually practises with any real consistency, myself included in seasons of my own ministry when other demands crowded it out. I want to make a case for why Scripture memorisation deserves a genuine place…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11129. The Lord’s Prayer is probably the single most recited passage in the whole Bible, spoken in churches, schools and homes across the world every single week, and yet I have met a great many believers who could recite it perfectly without ever having stopped to ask what Jesus was actually teaching us to…