I’ll never forget Easter weekend in 2009. I was making a sandwich on Sunday after church, exhausted after weeks of working seemingly nonstop in my job with a Christian ministry. I slept poorly. I worked long hours. I barely took any time off. But it was worth it; after all, it was all “for the mission,” y’know? But this...

Back in the far-off days of December 2020, there was a greater sense of anticipation about the coming year than I’ve seen in a long time. And it’s no surprise why: For many of us, 2020 was a gigantic dumpster fire. The pandemic and its fall out disrupted our regular patterns of life at every level. Concerns over the...

When we come to the Scriptures, we all have a reading plan. Sometimes our plans are highly structured, like a chronological study or “read the New Testament in 30 days.” Others tend to be, essentially, a game of Bible roulette—we just pick a place and read, with no clear direction as to why. (Maybe not the best approach, but…) In general,...

When we launched The Gospel Project in 2012, it was with one goal in mind: To help people of all ages see how the entire Bible tells this one big beautiful story of the gospel: God’s plan to save sinners through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ! We want people of all ages to see how the Bible...

How do you grow as a disciple, or follower, of Jesus? What does it look like? Is there a secret to growing in our faith? I suspect I’m not alone in having asked questions like these, even if we have some knowledge of their answers. After all, many of us understand discipleship on some level as a process. It’s...

It’s been fourteen weeks since my church last met in person. We haven’t gathered to sing, study the Bible, or take the Lord’s Supper as a congregation in that time. Complicating our situation even more, we meet in a public school, so barring an opportunity for us to find an alternate location, we can’t even target a date on...