Family fractures hurt differently than other wounds. You know this if you’ve sat across from a sibling who feels like a stranger, or if holiday gatherings carry more tension than joy. At C...
You wake up tired despite sleeping. Conversations feel like marathons. Simple decisions overwhelm you. That smile you wear to church takes everything you’ve got. I remember sitting with Ra...
You’ve probably felt too small to matter, like your problems don’t deserve God’s attention when He’s running the universe. Maybe you’re facing a struggle that seems insig...
Last winter, Marcus showed up at CityLight Church looking defeated. He’d been laid off from his engineering job six weeks earlier, his unemployment benefits were delayed, and he had $43 in his b...
I’ll never forget when Marcus, a talented graphic designer at CityLight Church, told me he felt guilty pursuing his art because it seemed “unspiritual.” He thought creativity was jus...
I’ll never forget the Sunday morning when little Emma, one of our youngest members at CityLight Church, asked me why God made fish before people. Her question came after our children’s min...
Perhaps you’ve wrestled with the doctrine of predestination, troubled by the idea that God predetermined who would be saved and who would be damned before anyone was born. Maybe someone to...
You’ve probably heard countless sermons about evangelism but still feel paralyzed when opportunities arise to share your faith. Maybe you think your story isn’t dramatic enough, or y...
“Karma’s going to get them.” I hear this constantly—even from Christians who should know better. Last month, a woman in my congregation believed her chronic illness was karmic paybac...
Three months into pastoral ministry, I stood before my congregation feeling completely inadequate. Seminary taught me theology and hermeneutics—but nothing prepared me for shepherding people thr...