Live well as a Christian man (REFUEL #30)

What I say to people is simple. If God can change my life, He can change anyone’s.

After a botched experiment setting up a tent, Dustin Crowe asked himself, How could I better reflect God’s fatherly love to my daughter? Here are three cautions for dads that came out of that reflection.

Timothy Paul Jones answers the charge of skeptics that Christianity is beholden to pagan myths, and he shows that it may be the other way around.

Jesus has already worn the armor of God in his battle with the devil. Now he hands us his armor, and promises to stand with us in every fight.

More important than how you do family devotions is that you do family devotions.

Satan lives to kill you. Meditate on his false promises long enough to defeat them wherever you find them.

It may be true that you are too busy for friends. But that doesn’t mean you should be. We always make time for what we treasure.

It’s true. Confession could cost your reputation. It could result in an awkward conversation. But freedom in the gracious, holy light of God is priceless.

Those of us who don’t enjoy conflict come up with a bevy of rationalizations to avoid the difficult conversation we know deep down we ought to have.

If Jesus had to be deliberate with His priorities, so will we. We will have to make it our mission to stay on mission. We will have to say no to good things. And we will have to work hard to rest.