Category: John Mark Comer

  • Honesty with emotions

    Jesus isn’t nearly as scared of honesty as we are. We hide how we really feel from God, we hide […]

  • Meditators

    Tim Keller “Persons who meditate become people of substance who have thought things out and have deep convictions, who can […]

  • Multitasking is a myth

    One of the reasons I’m so pharisaical about my phone, email, and social media is because I’ve come to realize […]

  • Keep your phone off until…

    Keep your phone off until…

    Keep your phone off until after your morning quiet time. The stats are ominous: 75 percent of people sleep next […]

  • Slowing

    Ortberg defined slowing as “cultivating patience by deliberately choosing to place ourselves in positions where we simply have to wait.” […]

  • Have nothing…

    The English designer William Morris offered a good rule of thumb: “Have nothing in your houses that you do not […]

  • Success?

    It hits me like a freight train: in America you can be a success as a pastor and a failure […]

  • Carefree unconcern

    As Richard Foster noted, “a carefree unconcern for possessions” is what “marks life in the kingdom.” John Mark Comer – […]

  • Shopping

    The French sociologist Jean Baudrillard has made the point that in the Western world, materialism has become the new, dominant […]

  • Bastard Sabbath

    Eugene Peterson had a name for a day off; he called it a “bastard Sabbath.” The illegitimate child of the […]