Dashhouse

A few years ago, I ran a series of races and felt pretty good about my performance, until I showed the results to a friend. He immediately noticed something I'd missed:

I was running the second half of every race slower than the first.

"You're doing it backwards," he said. "The goal is to run the second half faster. If you've prepared well and paced yourself right...

Big Idea: God's faithfulness does not depend on our ability to see it.

At some point, we have to face an uncomfortable problem: God's promises to Israel don't seem to have come true. And that matters because if God didn't keep his promises to Israel, why would we trust him to keep his promises to us?

In the Old Testament, God made big promises to ...

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The State of Theology: Canadian Survey Now Available

If a pastor's child rejects the gospel, must that pastor step down from ministry?

It's a question more pastors and churches will face than we might expect. I recently heard a pastor with young children say that if any one of them did not come to faith in Christ, he would resign. I can think of a number of well-known pastors whose adult children have walked away from the...

Big Idea: Understand why people don’t believe, understand the gospel, and then bring them the good news.

To be a Christian means that you will experience a new kind of pain that you’ve never experienced before. It’s a pain that Paul explains in both Romans 9 and 10. Here’s the first time he describes that type of pain from Romans 9: