“If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you” Matthew 5:29   How do you deal with sinful habits? You’ve probably never gone so far as to remove the offending body part! We struggle with this passage because we don’t fully comprehend the seriousness[...]

Preaching through the Sermon on the Mount has profoundly affected my thinking about ministry. During this series—The Jesus Agenda—God started working in me with the question, “How do we measure healthy ministry?” In other words, how can you tell a healthy church from an unhealthy one? Even though Jesus doesn’t[...]