Persuading people is tricky. We all have convictions that we believe would benefit others if they agreed with us. To make that happen, we persuade. But persuasion doesn’t usually happen in one conversation, so this is a post to remind us to keep the long view in mind...
In Paul’s letter to the Colossians, he tells believers, “Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer each person” (Colossians 4:6). Metaphors are often culturally-specific, so Paul means something different by...
Don’t Celebrate Unkindness. Celebrating historical figures gets complicated in a hurry. As soon as you find something inspiring about someone, you often find something troubling. None of us are perfectly consistent. All have sinned and fall short of the glory of...
In this final post of 2021, I’m compiling some of my top ten posts from this past year. I have excluded posts by staff and have listed these in no particular order with a brief explanation for why I chose each piece. Hope you enjoy this year in review. -Austin Why I...
The older I get, the more I like Christmas. It means more to me than it used to. This is the time of year when I turn on Andrew Peterson’s Behold the Lamb of God and am regularly moved to tears at the thought of God becoming man for us. When we celebrate the...
