John March

Category: Christian Living

  • Secrets

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    Secrets sabotage relationships like poison destroys the body.   When we keep secrets, we do damage to the relationships with the people we keep these secrets from.  Whatever we are hiding becomes less damaging than the fact that we are hiding something at all.  The secret ruins the relationship not the thing that is kept…

  • Only A Suffering God Can Help

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    What if God actually helped us?  What if, in our moment of pain, we could pray and our pain would go away?  What if, when we suffered, we could ask God for help and our suffering would actually cease?  That’d be nice.  It would be nice if knowing Christ meant saying goodbye to pain.  …

  • The Dark Side

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    Ruth Haley Barton says there is a dark side to leadership.  A church planting coach I recently heard, says that the biggest issue church planters and young leaders have to face is their past emotional baggage.  When leadership seems oppressive, difficult and emotionally taxing, what dark habits will emerge in your life?  What old emotional…

  • Are You in Control?

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    Race car drivers control their cars.  Pilots are in control of their airplanes.  Athletes control their bodies.  Control is synonymous with excellence.  The better you become at flying a plane, driving a car, or contorting your body as you fly through the air for a lay-up the more “in control” you are.  You are a…

  • God Doesn’t Hate You

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    I’m not sure if this is just human nature or if it’s been indoctrinated into me by my culture: When things don’t go well, I’m tempted to think God hates me.  When a series of unfortunate events unfold, I feel like God is out to get me.  When I get lost, then get a speeding…

  • I’m so Thankful for God’s Wrath

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    Angry people are so unbecoming.  Wrathful people are even worse.  They come across as vindictive.  When these people unleash their latent anger, watch out.  You may or may not have been the one to upset them, but you better get out of their way once they’re mad.  They seem set on destruction — the destruction…

  • Kierkegaard on Doubt (of the Ascension)

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    “So some have doubted.  But then in turn there were some who sought to refute doubt with reasons.  As a matter of fact, the connection was actually this: first of all they tried to demonstrate the truth of Christianity with reasons or by advancing reasons in relations to Christianity.  And the reasons fostered doubt and…

  • Primal

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    Mark Batterson loves Jesus.  I’ve now read two of his books, Wild Goose Chase and Primal, and the portrait I get of him is a high energy (possibly over-caffeinated, he started a coffee shop) Jesus junky.  He comes across as an adventurer in pursuit of new ways to articulate God’s love. And the good news…

  • Faith Firsts

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    In the next 10 days or so, we plan to close on our first house and have our first worship service as a church plant.  Both of these decisions have been big steps of faith for us.  Over the past 6 to 8 months, I’ve increasingly been making decisions that are rooted in my faith…

  • Fear as a lagging indicator of Faith

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    Stepping out in faith to attempt something new for God is hard.  Making the initial decision is hard, but following through with it can be even harder.  As we attempt to live into the new and scary journey God calls us to, uncertainty and fear well up in our hearts.  We wonder, can I really…