The Compassion of God

The Compassion of God

Have you been wounded by someone who should have loved you? Do you feel like damaged goods? Some of us have been beat up, in our souls, by those who should have built us up and nurtured us. We often feel like damaged goods. But the truth is, we are not rubbish. And...
The Gospel Is Greater

The Gospel Is Greater

As I talk to pastors, especially in an election season like this, I often sense the deep frustration they feel in shepherding their people through a time like this. People are very angry and opinionated these days. It’s hard to know how much or how little to say, and...
Compassionate Men

Compassionate Men

I was a young man in my early thirties, married with four daughters under six years old, and working a full-commissioned sales job. While grateful for the work, it barely made ends meet. Someone I knew told me of a company in an emerging industry that was hiring...
The Necessity of a Clear Conscience

The Necessity of a Clear Conscience

I want to finish well for Christ. I trust you do, too. In his letter to young Timothy urging long-term faithfulness to gospel living, Paul identified his clear conscience as the cornerstone to his fruitful endurance (2 Timothy 1:3). For you and me as men, the same is...
Learn

Learn

What are you learning right now in God’s Word? Are you living it out? Do you feel like you constantly fail to live out His truth? Many people know me as John Avant’s wife—a mom, a grandmother, a writer, a speaker. But most don’t know that for many years, I worked as a...